Notes
37 degrees
Easy Run
Nice and cold and after running shirtless the past week it's 37 degrees so wearing long sleeves, sleeveless shell & leggings. This was a bizarre run if you look at my HR thru 4.5 miles. Over the past 2 weeks I have felt weak, had trouble running more than 2-3 mi straight where I would feel really weak &/or totally lose rhythm, stomach issues bordering how I felt when I had colitis, and very high heart rate. On Sat I ran this same run where I had to stop at 2.3 mi and 3.3 mi, felt weak and ran almost 30 sec/mi slower. Ran this in/around Phillips Pl. Started at hotel ran down to other side then 4 x [2x loops of small lot out & looped RH around Fairview in entrance into small lot] & on fourth loop out exit (thru mi 3: when I started I began to feel some stress & tried to settle back, felt marginally better as I was running & more so in better rhythm but still felt that uneasy stress, then began to feel something weird as on the 3rd loop running in the small lot felt stronger, felt less winded, leading with my, really good rhythm, & as I ran out & looped RH & came back in felt really good, really relaxed and was running more effortless), back in entrance into small lot 2x loops out exit/in entrance into cinema lot for 1.5x+ figure 8 loops (mi 4 - continued to feel strong, effortless, in really good rhythm & noticed I was not expending as much energy compared to any prior run over the past 4-5 mos), finished up with 2.5x figure 8 loops (mi 4- 4.5: purposely pushed the pace, focused on trying to lessen my ground contact time both in mi 4 and more so in mi 5 which I did [to 273 ms] which picked up my cadence & finished strong). Stretched & then resumed finishing out the final 3/4 mi (2x+ loops of cinema lot out & around RH around Fairview in entrance).