Rain this morning, so FD#1 and I opted for a sleep in. I know I’ll regret this later, missing out on clocking more km’s for me and I will be watching FD#1 bouncing around tonight full of beans! A sleep in is lovely, but a missed opportunity is gone. I can’t make it up, and if I lose it due to being slack I have no room for losing the opportunity later in the week due to no cause of my own. I think I’d better get better at getting out of bed on time!
Today’s training was a 50-60 minute long run at 74-80% heart rate. One way of calculating your maximum heart rate (though not the most accurate) is to take your age away from 220. So based on the gut wrenching fact that I am 43 next week, my maximum heart rate is 177. To run at 74-80% meant I had to keep my heart rate at between 128 and 138. This is so hard! It means I had to run so, so slow that I was thankful it was dark! I must admit that when I ran into the light (traffic lights or street lights) I did run a little faster; I couldn’t look too slow! I felt like I was almost running on the spot, but any time I took bigger steps, my heart rate went too high. So, small steps I made (just like Cliff) and I managed to get around the 60minutes with an average heart rate of 137. In target range, just!!
Less than 5 minutes into the run I realised I should’ve cut my toe nails, especially the one on my right little toe. It was no digging into my next toe, and I spent the hour focusing on my toenail and hoping it wasn’t cutting too much into its neighbour. The run was actually enjoyable, toe nail aside, and I think I could’ve done another hour if I’d needed to. Focusing on my toe, I realised I was running more on my forefoot in order to avoid the rubbing. I could almost see how people could run faster this way, small, small steps and just increasing foot speed. I might try it another time and see what it feels like.
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