So yesterday my wife called and said we had $500 left in our health savings account to use before the end of the year and maybe I should make a dentist appointment for a checkup to use some of it up. Being an obedient husband I called and made an appointment for yesterday afternoon, left work early for a routine check and cleaning. Well to make a long story short 4 hours later I had myself an emergency root canal, and crown put on. Last time I listen to my wife concerning a routine dentist appointment. At least I used up the remaining money in our flex account. I decided it might be fun to try and run being on heavy pain medication, I had a pretty hard run on the books for this morning and just decided to see how it would go. Workout called for a 10 mile run with 5 x 1 mile intervals at 5:15 pace. I knew the 5:15 was going to be a stretch seeing the last time I did 1 mile intervals I had a hard time holding a 6:00 pace, but that was probably 6 months ago. Did a 2 mile warm up, and then started my 1 mile intervals, did 1/2 mile very slow jog in between each. started out slower than goal and thought I could work my way down to 5:15, I'm going to start keeping better track of all my runs with the chart below from now on. As you can see, splits went 5:27, 5:20, 5:17, (That 5:17 about killed me), 5:25 and then the final one 5:56. Just couldn't do it anymore. My stomach was having all sorts of issues and I was about to throw-up all over the treadmill. Pretty good run all things considered, stomach issues and pain meds. Pretty surprised my HR never went over 170, that's only like 85% of max. I'm not sure why my HR always spikes when I start running, it always does that but I don't count it, I've had it go all the way to 220 before. | Distance | Time | Avg Pace | Avg HR | Max HR | | 1 | 6:30 | 6:30 | 164 | 186 | | 2 | 6:39 | 6:39 | 148 | 155 | | 3 | 5:27 | 5:27 | 166 | 169 | | 3.5 | 4:14 | 8:28 | 151 | 169 | | 4.5 | 5:20 | 5:20 | 167 | 170 | | 5 | 4:29 | 8:58 | 151 | 169 | | 6 | 5:17 | 5:17 | 167 | 170 | | 6.5 | 4:50 | 9:40 | 148 | 169 | | 7.5 | 5:25 | 5:25 | 166 | 170 | | 8 | 4:21 | 8:42 | 152 | 168 | | 9 | 5:56 | 5:56 | 162 | 166 | | Total | 0:58:31 | 6:30 | 158 | 170 |
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