Finally, a spot of nice weather coincided with me having enough time to squeeze in an outdoor run!! I'm sooooo excited! It was about 51F (11C) during my early evening run today. I forgot how much I enjoyed running outside. It is so much nicer than the treadmill. That is extra-true because lately, I haven't found anything very good on the TV while on the treadmill. The other nice thing about today's run was that there was very little wind. Here on the plains, the wind is probably the number one factor whether it's an easy run or not. I definitely felt my decrease in mileage I've had lately, but I got through around 31 minutes without much trouble at all. In fact, I could have done more, but I could tell my knees where slightly week. Actually, the one, if I may borrow a term from the Brits on the C25K forums, was a tad niggly. So, I decided not to push my luck and stop. I don't need to aggravate that again!
Running outside is so freeing and refreshing. There is so much to look at and I always have my path wander around aimlessly. I don't plan it out in advance, so it's always a surprise!
My heart rate showed my resting lately. I had a max rate of 187bpm and an average of 169bpm. Not great, but I was so excited about running outside that I barely noticed it.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Awesome W2D1
Today was one of those days where the stars aligned. Outside of a small hiccup that my first attempt to download this week's podcast ended in a corrupted file, a fact I didn't realize until I was walking out the door, things went really well today. I guess that beer I had at dinner didn't slow me down.
Today was the perfect temperature: 61F. A slight breeze. I felt strong and ran well. Also, I LOVED this week's music. DJ Beatsmith said it is House music week. I'm not up on all the different nuances in electronic music, but I know now that I like House music! The only problem is I kept getting the urge to dance or shake my booty while running. That would not have been a pretty sight. Although, I did walk with an attitude during the cool down walk! I think I'll do all three days of this week's intervals since I like this music so much.
I ran a different route tonight. One path I took is right by a busy road. I ran down it one way on the side of oncoming traffic and couldn't see the path at all. It was like jogging blind. I knew the path was there, so I just had to hope there wasn't anything to trip over! When I got down the hill and back up the next, I turned around and went back the way I came. Going with traffic made all the difference in the world.
Today while running I even got a honk from a car that drove by. One time my friend and I were running and we got somebody whistling and hooting from their house. Pretty cool in a town where half of the people are 18-23 years of age.
According to MapMyRun.com, I went a little over 5k during my 36 minutes of intervals. 4 minutes of that is walking. I hit 5k right at about 35 minutes including 3 minutes of walking.
Another positive is that my HRM registered my heart rate correctly the whole time. I didn't need to mess with it once. Since I felt well today, I probably pushed myself a bit more than I sometimes do. My HRM registered a max HR of 199bpm and an average (including warmup and cooldown ) of 142bpm. I'm guessing the 199 was towards the end when I picked up the pace. I didn't see it go that high when I was looking at it every now and then during the rest of the run.
Well, here's to a great run and lots of endorphins! BTW, I see on Wikipedia that the release of endorphins is also referred to as "runner's high"... very appropriate, and very accurate.
Today was the perfect temperature: 61F. A slight breeze. I felt strong and ran well. Also, I LOVED this week's music. DJ Beatsmith said it is House music week. I'm not up on all the different nuances in electronic music, but I know now that I like House music! The only problem is I kept getting the urge to dance or shake my booty while running. That would not have been a pretty sight. Although, I did walk with an attitude during the cool down walk! I think I'll do all three days of this week's intervals since I like this music so much.
I ran a different route tonight. One path I took is right by a busy road. I ran down it one way on the side of oncoming traffic and couldn't see the path at all. It was like jogging blind. I knew the path was there, so I just had to hope there wasn't anything to trip over! When I got down the hill and back up the next, I turned around and went back the way I came. Going with traffic made all the difference in the world.
Today while running I even got a honk from a car that drove by. One time my friend and I were running and we got somebody whistling and hooting from their house. Pretty cool in a town where half of the people are 18-23 years of age.
According to MapMyRun.com, I went a little over 5k during my 36 minutes of intervals. 4 minutes of that is walking. I hit 5k right at about 35 minutes including 3 minutes of walking.
Another positive is that my HRM registered my heart rate correctly the whole time. I didn't need to mess with it once. Since I felt well today, I probably pushed myself a bit more than I sometimes do. My HRM registered a max HR of 199bpm and an average (including warmup and cooldown ) of 142bpm. I'm guessing the 199 was towards the end when I picked up the pace. I didn't see it go that high when I was looking at it every now and then during the rest of the run.
Well, here's to a great run and lots of endorphins! BTW, I see on Wikipedia that the release of endorphins is also referred to as "runner's high"... very appropriate, and very accurate.
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