dannewton just finished a 16.8km run, that lasted for 105 minutes.
This run helped dannewton burn 1227.0 calories.
Description from Strava:
Not much to say about this run to be honest... just keeping the momentum up, and keeping the consistency going.
Today was a Monday, the 'first' day of the week, and I always ty to start the week with a run. As usual I was working from home today, although do to a couple of last minute calls I wasn't able to finish at 4pm as planned and instead I finally logged out at 4:30
And as usual, I immediately got changed and headed out for the run, which was all the way up the bypass and back, for a relatively simple 17 (ish) kilometers. The weather was cool, but not cold or wet. There was a reasonable breeze but nothing to blustery
Running in the wind is more annoying than you might expect!
And of course, the first run of the week is easy (as part of recovery from running at the weekend), so it was more Zone 2 heart rate stuff. The zones they use to categorise heart rate levels are different for everyone and is dependant on age, experiance and fitness. For Zone 2 I am between 135bpm and 148bpm.
The whole point of low HR zones is a method to help me run slower, as I have habit running a little quicker than my actual fitness can manage. Over the past few months I've learnt to slow down BUT I think I might be going too slowly now.
The last couple of weeks I've noticed that my hear t rate is averageing 138pbm, which is near the lower end of zone 2, and I think I'm becoming used to running at an easy pace. Sometimes I look down at my watch ad realise I'm dawdling along in Zone 1 at 120bpm!
I do still need to push a little harder, otherwise I'm only ever going to stick at that pace and not improve. Part of that is helped by me starting to implement some speedwork sessions once per week, but the other way is to push a little harder in these zone 2 runs, and try to keep my HR just below the higher limit
So for todays run I did just that, trying to keep just below the limit. It did feel odd running just a little bit quicker, almost as though I had forgot... and I did have to keep checking the watch as my pace kept dropping (and so the HR dropped as well).
But I tried my best to keep focused, and I managed to get some new segment 'medal' times:
Its certainly been a while since I've managed to get something like this on a route I've run pretty often before!
And it comes back to what I mentioned on the previous post that my times are now close to what I was running at the start of the year (before the injury, and the corresponding switch to low heart rate training). Not only was the pace nice and quick (for me at least), but the effort was still easy.
So yeah, it's all good :-)
Now to crack on with some chores I didn't manage to complete yesterday (including the dreaded ironing) and then getting ready to be in the office tomorrow. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is of course a rest day again, and then I'll be back to speedwork on Wednesday...
If you would like to check out this activity on strava you can see it here:
https://www.strava.com/activities/10400945832
About the Athlete: Living in the UK, I am an intermittent Runner, but always striving for more consistency. When I'm not training I can be found photographing insects or listening to really loud angry music (which is the best type of music obviously!)
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