Thursday, January 22, 2009

Broadway Part II

10 Miles 1:07:56 6:48 average
5:20 pm) 154 HR average
Decided to do the same run as last night. I wanted to
see if being somewhat sore and tired from yesterday
would have a effect on my run as far as pace and HR
goes. The first miles felt okay but I could feel the
fatigue in my legs. My pace was slower but not much.
Then after the 5th mile I turned around and headed
back still feeling tired at mile 6. When I got to
mile 7 I was actually feeling better to my surprise.
I ran strong miles 7-10. So I'm happy with this run
and how well my body responded. I have not done back
to back 10 mile runs in like forever so this was
a good experiment. I will probably try this again
in a few weeks or so to see how I do. I ended up running
27 seconds faster and my HR average was only 1 beat higher.
I thought I would run maybe 10 seconds a mile slower and
figured my HR would be at least 5 beats higher on average.

Mile/Pace/HR
1/7:21/140
2/6:56/148
3/6:46/152
4/6:45/155
5/6:40/157
6/6:56/152
7/6:42/158
8/6:44/159
9/6:37/161
10/6:27/163

2 comments:

GZ said...

Are you capping these runs based on pace, HR, PE?

I bet you could probably swing these back to backs like this, if you felt up to it, pretty frequently.

Brad Poppele said...

Hi GZ, I'm not worried about HR or pace too much. I would say that I'm going by PE. If I feel good I will pick it up and if I don't I slow down some.
I also believe I could do these type of runs frequently. I'm still early in my training base, but with some more mileage under my belt I will be doing more of these. Next week I start my 16 week training program form my May 17th marathon. I'm looking forward to getting on it.
Brad