Run Summaries

Distance: 3.10 mi
Time: 0:34:18
Avg. Pace: 11′06″
Max. Pace: 9′03″
Avg. HR: 157
Max. HR: 178
Recovery Delta: 55

Good run this morning. We finally got a cooler, less humid day, and Brian is making great strides in his endurance. We lopped a good bit of time off our pace today, and finished strong. I’m going to try and push a little more time off the run tomorrow, and then we’ll see what we can do on a long run this weekend.

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Distance: 3.00 mi
Time: 0:34:17
Avg. Pace: 11′23″
Max. Pace: 9′35″
Avg. HR: 151
Max. HR: 177
Recovery Delta: 49

Hot seems to be the theme in Nashville now. It was 81 before 5 am today, so this was not a cool run. Brian ran with me this morning. He’s coming into shape quickly – today was about 30 seconds/mile faster than our last run together.

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Distance: 6.00 mi
Time: 1:04:45
Avg. Pace: 10′41″
Max. Pace: 8′39″
Avg. HR: 167
Max. HR: 186
Recovery Delta: 23

One word: HOT! I got up early. It was 79 degrees when I got up. I think it’s summer. I had to take a few walking breaks today, but even with those slower periods of walking, I took 40 seconds/mile off the pace of my 5-mile outing last Saturday. (When it was a good bit cooler, I might add.)

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Distance: 3.00 mi
Time: 0:28:39
Avg. Pace: 9′32″
Max. Pace: 7′52″
Avg. HR: 69
Max. HR: 186
Recovery Delta: 54

Wow. Careful what you ask for! I ran this morning with my friend Mark, who has completed one marathon and multiple half-marathons. He hasn’t been running routinely recently, but still was able to set a pace that hammered me. I asked to dial it back a couple of times, and we did, so he would have run at a faster pace without me holding him back. My previous fastest average pace for a 3-mile route this year was 10′40″, so we shaved 1:08 per mile off of that pace this morning. I can benefit from someone pushing me like that in order to achieve my goals, though. He definitely pulled me to another level.

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Distance: 3.03 mi
Time: 0:36:25
Avg. Pace: 12′02″
Max. Pace: 9′04″
Avg. HR: 156
Max. HR: 174
Recovery Delta: 47

Ran with my friend Brian again today. He has set a goal to run the same race I am targeting, so if we both can manage to avoid injury and complete the training, that would be a huge help to have someone encouraging us to get out and do it every time. It was a very muggy morning – it actually rained just a few minutes after I got home, which was not surprising given how the air felt while we were running. It was a nice, easy pace again today – or it should have been without the humidity. It still wasn’t bad, though. I did run considerably faster up the largest hill on the route than I had any day prior to today, which is when my max HR occurred. I’m looking forward to this weekend’s longer run to see how I do.

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Distance: 3.06 mi
Time: 0:35:59
Avg. Pace: 11′45″
Max. Pace: 9′13″
Avg. HR: 151
Max. HR: 169
Recovery Delta: 48

Nice, easy run. My friend Brian ran with me this morning. He hadn’t been out in a month or so, and is fighting with a nagging injury, so we took it nice and easy. He did great for his first time out in a while, though. I never would have thought that I could progress to the point where 3 miles (at any pace) could be so easy after just a couple of weeks of running regularly. I’m very encouraged by that.

This is day one of my defined training schedule for the marathon. I’m very excited about working toward that goal and seeing progress.

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Distance: 5.3 mi
Time: 1:01:00
Avg. Pace: 11′20″
Max. Pace: 6′42″
Avg. HR: 160
Max. HR: 180
Recovery Delta: 44

This was my first run longer than ~3 miles since I started running again, and I did take two walking breaks. (About 8′20″ were spent walking total, so that affected my average pace significantly.) The first running segment was 33′23″ and 3.1 miles, which is longer than I’d done continuously any prior run. Being able to add another couple of miles to that was fun. I am working on learning a new technique, and this was my first time trying to get my arms around that. It’s hard to stay focused on different posture, stride length, etc when running. I did reasonably well, but I have a lot to learn to be able to practice it consistently. I felt really good afterwords considering the distance I covered, which was a big jump over my previous longest distance.

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