Geeking out with my Garmin. Currently on connect.garmin.com looking at my last few runs. Not too shabby. My milage for the last two weeks (22 & 28 mi) is nothing like it was last month, but I am trying to give my body a chance to rest. With the miles I am running, I am more thoughtful of my heart rate. I’m trying to make sure I’m hitting the right percentage or zone on certain runs. As of now, I think I’m a little below of the %, but I know I am pushing myself a bit more and a bit farther. I know if I wasn’t watching my Garmin, I would slow down and take it easy earlier on my runs.
I got room for another good run tomorrow before heading to the east coast for the next six days. I doubt I’ll find much time to run over there, but I should get plenty of tourist walking in on the visit. Once again, I know my body wants this break.
Time to give this heart rate monitor training another go. I ran for 4.75 miles on Thursday. About 3 miles of it was supposed to be at a tempo pace. According to several sites, my heart rate should be at 161+ bpm at a tempo pace. I was just below that for most of the tempo session at around 159 bpm. I hope to get much faster for my next race and hopefully using my heart rate monitor will help me get there.
Just a quick run today. Just over 3 miles and body felt ok. I’m uncertain if ok feeling is because I haven’t given my body enough time to recover or I let too my body recover too much. It was ten days ago since I did my ultra and it dad time the only real activity I’ve done is go for an hour long bike ride.
I’m planning to do another short easy run tomorrow and hopefully my body will fell better than just ok.
The Chuckanut 50k was last Saturday. I knew this was going to be a tough run, but I felt strong and ready.
A quick intro to the race, it is a 50k run located just north of Seattle on the trails around Chuckanut Mtn. Below is the course profile.
I studied this profile before the race and I knew that I would need to hike in at least three parts. These parts were the climb on the beginning of the 2nd leg, the 3rd leg and the beginning of the 5th leg.
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I just signed up for my 2nd ultra - Chuckanut 50k. Registrations opened this morning and the 500 spots filled up in 1 hr and 15 minutes. Amazing! Kind of crazy too, since the race is only 10 weeks away. So everyone that signed up has already been training - none of this, I’ll sign up and then train later, NO, start running and if you are not broken by registration, then you can sign up.
Just thinking of the mileage I have to do over the next few weeks is making me hurt. Bah! Whatever, I don’t have time to complain, I need to get a long run in.
