Feeling pretty sleep deprived for some reason this morning, didn't make for a great run. Plus I thought my hamstring issues were through but my long run on Saturday showed me different, towards the end of the run it was really acting up on some of the hills, I felt like I was going to cramp up if I stopped. Anyway, today called for 5 X 800's at 5K pace, I thought since my 5K pace is about the same as my marathon pace I should try and make them a little bit harder and shoot for 1/2 marathon pace instead. They were pretty hard, my hamstring took a bit to stretch out and the first interval and I about quit but after that it actually felt better. 6 mile slow warm up, 5 X 800's with 1/4 mile jog, followed by a 1.75 mile cool down. Splits for 800's ---- Interval | Time | Avg HR
| Max HR
| 800m
| 2:50.83
| 170 | | 800m | 2:55.47 | 166 | | 800m | 2:51.90 | 167 | | 800m | 2:51.07 | 168 | | 800m
| 2:48.05
| 169
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Humm, my Garmin wont show me Max HR unless I upload the workout and I forgot my USB cable. I think the highest I saw it get was 175 so not as hard an effort as my hill "sprint" 1600's the other day, but pretty decent effort.
P.M. My wife actually came up with the answer to my doubles problem. My sons soccer team decided to start practice today so she suggested I take him to soccer and run while waiting instead of sitting on the sideline yelling at him for not running hard enough and getting mad at his dimwhit coach. His practice was at Lehi Jr. High which I knew had a track so I put on my running clothes and ran the track. I had not idea how far I'd make it, and had no time monitoring device so I just ran until practice was over. Ended up with 28 laps, in around 50ish minutes. They are planning on practice everyday this week so it could end up being a good week for me.
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