Late evening run - stopped by the WRC tonight and picked up a new singlet to bring me good luck on Sat...had to try it out of course, along with the rest of my planned gear for Sat. Much mixed thoughts on preparedness for Sat...ran 1st mile kind of hard, noticed a small presence of wheeziness, will have to remember inhaler for race. 2nd mile was just sightseeing - super easy. 3rd mile was downhill and after dogging it for a little, dialed up the pace to push the 4th mile. 4th mile was 5:49 w/Avg HR @ about 161. Higher than I would prefer to be sure, but in the past I have killed myself on this exact same stretch of road to eek under 6 mins usually hitting over 170HR the few times I actually had my HR monitor for the section. Have no illusions of holding this pace @ SG - should probably have started doing HR training sometime ago. |