Even up until last night I thought about doing a treadmill marathon this morning, I pretty much knew it wouldn't be good and this morning as I hobbled out of bed I just wrote it off. Went to the gym and just did my normal 12 mile progression run, I wore my heart rate monitor today for the first time in a long time which confirmed I wasn't ready for a treadmill PR anyway. Last year I ran the entire 26.2 miles with an average HR of 160, mile 9 I did in 6:27 with an average HR of 162, today I hit mile 9 in 6:25 (progression to get there) and my Avg HR was 168. So that verified that I'm just not in as good of shape as I was back then. Which I already knew but now have the data to back it up. 12 miles in 1:25:33, Avg HR 157 Oh, I forgot to mention I did 5 X sprints 13.1,13.2,13.3,13.4,13.5 MPH for the last mile so that probably brought the average up a bit. I think this is funny http://thankful13.com/5k/5k-time/. Apparently "The average person runs a 5K in about 33 minutes at 10 mph."
The average person must get lost a lot.
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