After a day of flip-flopping back and forth on if I should run and coming up with all sorts of excuses not to run, I dragged my lazy butt out for a run. The goal was to get out there and do a recovery type run. I decided to head out on a loop that could either be just over 6 or just over 7 depending on how I felt. I didn't feel great starting off because I had some tight muscles but I figured they'd stretch out over the course of the run. I was going about 7:30's to start off but quickly fell down to an 8:00 average. It was nice being out there just plodding on through the run but I couldn't figure out how to get any speed even though that shouldn't have been the days focus. On the run I wasn't hurting, just having a little trouble with breathing because it was a little more chilly than I would have liked and it was drying me out pretty quickly. I decided to stretch the run to the longer course because I'm training for 13.1 miles now. At mile 5.0 I had a 7:59 average. Over the next 2.5 miles I held just under 7:30's. The run totalled 7.56 miles and the total time was :59:11. Nothing really fast overall, but a good starting point for 7+ mile runs. I might aim for a 10 mile run this weekend just holding 8:00 and see how that goes. That'll be the goal anyway. If I don't do that I'll try and do a brick with a longer bike ride and a shorter run.
Today's average heart rate was a rather high 161 and the max was 174 which came over the last two miles. I can only expect that my swim tomorrow is going to be all sloppy once again but maybe miracles will happen.
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