Doubling What My Coach Said To Do
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: City Running | Tags: miami, sand 9 Comments »
When I pondered my run from yesterday, I felt kind of lame. Yeah – I had the excuse that running on sand is like running in molasses, but I still didn’t feel like I worked nearly as hard as a should. So when I saw that today’s run was a mere 40 minutes, I decided to double it.
I have a double long weekend coming up – 2 hours on Saturday and 2:40 on Sunday. That’ll be about 25 miles or so. With the 6.46 I ran today I’m already at 25 miles for the week so I’ll have the potential for the first 50 mile week in a long time. And that feels important to me since I’m about two months away from a 50 mile run in Sacramento.
I can’t seem to get much pace at all for the segments on the beach. I’m doing an 8:2 pattern and as you can see from my 135 average heart rate I’m not really working that hard. Or maybe my heart is just in awesome shape since I’m running at sea level and it’s been trained at 5000 to 9000 feet. Regardless, my recovery time was quick – an hour after I finished I feel like I could go for a run again.
We’ll see how I feel on Sunday afternoon after another 25 miles of this.
I don’t know if the offer still stands but I’d love to grab sometime if you’re ever in St. Louis. Something less than 50 miles is preferable.
I mean grab a run, as opposed to generally grabbing.
Hah! Yeah – I interpreted it correctly. I don’t have any near term plans to be in St. Louis (I ran the marathon there last year) but if I do I’ll broadcast it and we can connect.
I bet it is pretty warm down there too. Warmer temps equal slower paces as well.
I ran my first 50 mile week this month. Was supposed to do it again this week, but had a stomach bug.
Good point – I always forget that the heat slows me down. Congrats on the 50 – feel better!
What are you using to track heart rate data?
Wahoo – http://store.runkeeper.com/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RK&Screen=PROD&Category_Code=FEATURED&Product_Code=RK_RUNPACK
probably fitbit
Your heart rate could be in awesome shape XD
(hey i could be wrong lol)
Mine is pretty slow compared to the other runners on my team, I can’t get it up to 160 on workout days. I guess that means we lower heartrate folk can do longer distances