Sunny Sunday Morning Run
Since we are still in Ottawa I had an opportunity to run once more along the Rideau Canal. This time, it was my long run that I had to complete and I wasn't exactly sure of how my times I'd have to go around to complete the distance so I just started off and decided to go as far as I could towards downtown before having to turn around.
The run started off OK, but within the first five kilometres I could tell that it would be a mental and physical struggle all the way. I wanted to keep a nice even pace and figured that I should be able to complete the planned distance in just under two hours if I went a bit faster than my usual long run pace. I hit the turnaround point still on track, but this was nowhere near halfway and I was a bit worried about keeping going all the way to the end.
All that being said I did succeed. I managed the 22km in 1:59:20 for an average pace of 5:25/km (8:43/mile). As I passed the Half Marathon point I checked the watch and it showed 1:54 and change, which is nice for a training run. The heart rate averaged out to 146bpm, and I'm happy with that overall. The biggest obstacle I had today was my legs - they felt very heavy and hurt most of the time. Not the knees so much, but the muscles. I thought this would be a bit of a recovery week and didn't think I'd run anywhere near the mileage that I did last week, but in the end this week's total was only 1k shy of last week's 45km so I guess I didn't get a break after all. In two weeks I have a ten miler race and perhaps that will be a good time to scale the mileage back and try and use the race as a good tempo run workout.
Today we are off to a cottage for a week and Internet access may be scarce, if at all available. I hope that my IPhone tethering works there, but no guarantees so blog postage may take a week off as well.
Garmin don't lie.
The run started off OK, but within the first five kilometres I could tell that it would be a mental and physical struggle all the way. I wanted to keep a nice even pace and figured that I should be able to complete the planned distance in just under two hours if I went a bit faster than my usual long run pace. I hit the turnaround point still on track, but this was nowhere near halfway and I was a bit worried about keeping going all the way to the end.
All that being said I did succeed. I managed the 22km in 1:59:20 for an average pace of 5:25/km (8:43/mile). As I passed the Half Marathon point I checked the watch and it showed 1:54 and change, which is nice for a training run. The heart rate averaged out to 146bpm, and I'm happy with that overall. The biggest obstacle I had today was my legs - they felt very heavy and hurt most of the time. Not the knees so much, but the muscles. I thought this would be a bit of a recovery week and didn't think I'd run anywhere near the mileage that I did last week, but in the end this week's total was only 1k shy of last week's 45km so I guess I didn't get a break after all. In two weeks I have a ten miler race and perhaps that will be a good time to scale the mileage back and try and use the race as a good tempo run workout.
Today we are off to a cottage for a week and Internet access may be scarce, if at all available. I hope that my IPhone tethering works there, but no guarantees so blog postage may take a week off as well.
Garmin don't lie.
Labels: running
posted by Vava at
10:40 AM
3 Comments:
That's a fantastic time for a training run. I'd probably be happy with that for a race!
Nice pace for your run.
Great job in fighting thru the mental part of running.
Way to win the battle and hit your goal time. Enjoy the seclusion the cottage will offer! Have lots of fun.
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