What's better than a post run smoothie? A milkshake with maple syrup to follow that smoothie.
That was about the only bright spot today. At least as it concerns my run.
Hal Higdon told me this week:
Ten miles at your marathon pace. In the early weeks of the program when I asked you to do "pace runs," you probably thought, "This is not a workout. This is a stroll in the park." But running 10 miles at marathon pace is serious business, particularly when it serves as a prelude to tomorrow's 20-miler. The cumulative effect of 30 miles stacked back-to-back will get you in shape to succeed in the marathon itself a half dozen weeks from now. Is the marathon only six weeks away? Oh my!
No Hal, I did not think that those early runs were a walk in the park. No, I thought I was crackers then and still do. Hal? Why do I hurt so much?
My footpod, evil contraption that it is, told me during my run that I was running slightly slower than marathon pace, around 5:35 min/km. Well, during the first part of the run I was running around goal pace of 5:19 min/km but I started to unravel.
The two dips in heart rate you see there are me stopping to stretch out my back and legs for about a minute each time. I hope I won't have to do that during the actual marathon.
Turns out, that instead of running 16km as the footpod said, I actually ran 17.5 km. The good news is that this means that my average speed was slightly higher than my goal. The bad new is that I ran the first part too fast and am going to pay for it tomorrow during the 2nd of 3 32km runs.
The best thing was picking up my old Bianchi Quattro frame, and an used cross frame from a friend. (Lets call him "Tom")
I plan on building those up into actual roadworthy bikes in the near future. The Bianchi has seen better days, and I think it'll become a fixed gear clunker, nothing fancy. And the cross frame just might get ridden in the dirt some day.
I'll probably post pics of their progress on occasion.
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