The Workout: Run 1 hour @ MI-MHI
This was supposed to be a spinning day, but the weather let up and I had an 80F day to run in. So I took advantage of it and hit the road and decided to make today my long day.
I finally replaced my batteries in my Polar S725 watch and HR monitor. I had been waiting to send it in to get the batteries replaced (since it's recommended by Polar) but I kept dragging my feet because I really didn't want to. I figured if I could maintain the mechanical aspects of the engine room on a nuclear submarine... I could replace a watch battery. They recommend against doing it yourself because of the risk of ruining the seals that maintain it's 30m water resistance. Caution was thrown to the wind. I'll post photos of this watch tear down as well as my wife's Polar watch just in case you're thinking about changing the batteries and you want to know what you're getting into.
Anyway, I got everything back together. Tested the watch under water for leakage and everything is fine.
Time to run.So with the HRM I now had an actual monitor of my intensity level, which is a lot more accurate than simply how I "feel". The way I feel is very hard to guage, since most often I think... "I'm just being a pansy, it doesn't hurt that bad, go faster." Which doesn't do a lot of good while training to stay injury free. Without remembering my exact zones, I set out to maintain 155-165 for the run. Last I checked, my max was 197, which would put that zone at 78%-84%. Which is good for increasing aerobic capacity, sounds about right for this run.
I had a few technical difficulties at about mile 5 (I think). Endomondo and Pandora both quit. So, my headphones went silent and at first I thought it was just Pandora rebuffering, so I ran for a while longer, but the music never came back on so I figured something must be amiss. I stopped and found what had happened. So I fired them both back up and kept chugging along. Hmmmmm... chugging sounds like a laboring steam engine... let's say purring along :)
I staged a Gatorade and some PowerBar Energy Blasts on the way out so I'd get back to them at around 45 minutes. Felt great to get back to those!
I finished up the run at 9.1 miles in 1:07:21 averaging 7:25m/mi. Not too shabby, I'm getting faster slowly but surely :)
The unfortunate thing about Endo quitting is that my mile splits got messed up. I was tracking them with my watch, but they're not accurate in the middle of the run because that's when Endo quit and I was relying on the mile announcement to hit the Lap button. So here's the Endo info that I added the route after the fact and the timing info. Also, here's my splits with HR averages. I love data and knowing as much as I can about how my body is reacting to training.
Overall HR Average was 163 max was 180
1) 8:01 162
2) 7:01 164
3) 7:30 167
4) 7:22 171*
5) 7:22 171*
6) 7:22 171*
7) 7:48 170
8) 8:09 169
9) 7:02 175
*These values are all averages of the time that was messed up during my technical problems.
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