I had my long run this weekend. After waking up early on a relatively warm Saturday, I received a text message from Chris Fuller telling me to swing by his shop to use his heart monitor and GPS on my run. Again, learning on the fly here, I obliged and grabbed it. Especially given my history of heart issues and surgery, after using it, it is going to be an investment that I make for this training and marathon to make sure that I don't overextend myself into a dangerous area.
For the run itself I really didn't feel so hot the whole run but the beauty of the heart monitor is that it keeps my pace right there on the watch. After feeling pretty bad about 4 miles in, I decided to back off and only go 9 miles rather than the planned 11. After looking down with about a mile and a half I saw my average pace go all the way down to 9:01 and I said to myself that there was no way I was going to finish with a pace above 9 minutes. I was able to really dig in the last half mile and bring my average pace down to about 8:58 which was at least a good way to finish, even though I didn't feel well.
Today I got up early and with the still great weather for a December did a 3 plus mile run of interval training which was quite the way to start my week. Those are the kind of workouts that are a killer but I need to do to get better and faster come marathon time.
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