To get a better sense of my current conditioning, I started with the faster miles on this one: 18 miles at 7:10min/mi, followed by 8.4 miles at a recovery pace of 9:00min/mi.
Half #139: I don’t always run a half-marathon…
Wait, no, maybe I do. 🙂 I just noticed that my last ten runs have all been half-marathons (or a little more), and I think that my body has notes. Looking forward to a shorter run for the next one. For this run, I kept easy pace and heart rate.
Half #138: South Island coast half
Once again, a run building to a sustained pace around 7:00-7:15min/mi.
Half #137: my highest mileage year ever!
I’ve now surpassed last year’s 2,323 miles, which itself was almost 1,000 miles higher than any previous year. The run itself was my south-end cross-Island route at an easy pace.
Half #136: Gazzam to Grand Forest and back
To my history buffs: unlike Washington’s chair, this is definitely a setting sun.
Half #135: Election Day half
Channeling my political anxiety into some tough intervals: 4 x 2mi @6:25min/mi with 1mi recoveries @8:00min/mi.
Half #134: hunting marathon pace
The first 9 miles of this one was roughly a “zone 3” run, which is a bit of a guilty pleasure: neither fast enough to improve my VO2max, nor slow enough for heart rate training, they say that zone 3 runs don’t provide the same physiological benefits of zone 4 (faster) or zone 2 (slower) runs, but sometimes they just feel good! For the next 6 miles, though, I pushed up to a tempo pace somewhere around my goal marathon pace.
Half #133: powered by fun-size candies
More candy than willpower in my house at the moment, with the Halloween candy bowl just sitting there. I kept the pace easy for the first part, building to a sub-7:30min/mi pace for the last five miles or so.
Half #132: Wednesday group run
I ran to the group run again yesterday, on a dark and soggy evening.
Half #131: soaked trail half
In the midst of another atmospheric river yesterday, I ran the Gazzam hill circuit x2 (more or less). Apparently we’d received 1.75″ of rain for the day at that point. Splash!