So on my run Saturday I was complaining to Ryan that I thought my schedule seemed to easy and maybe I should bump up the mileage, Ryan convinced me that it's probably a good thing that it seems easy so I should keep the same schedule and focus on Quality over Quantity. Ah, the ol' Quality vs. Quantity argument. Spent the rest of the weekend contemplating what that actually means, I take it to mean that my easy runs should be easier and my hard runs should be faster. Tell me if I'm wrong!! So today was a 10 mile run with a 5 mile Tempo, at 5:52 pace. I thought about it and didn't really think running the first 5 slow would necessarily enable me to run the 5 mile tempo any faster, in fact I find it to be the opposite sometimes, so I pretty much went all out from the start, starting at 6 min pace and slowly working up. OK, I cheated the last 4 and put the treadmill on a negative 1% decline. I decided I would rather keep my pace up than slow down when I got tired toward the end. I think this counts as one of those Quality workouts. | Distance | Time | Avg Pace
| Incline | Avg HR
| Max HR
| | 1 | 6:00 | 5:55 | | 155 | 186 | | 2 | 5:59 | 5:59 | | 155 | 159 | | 3 | 5:56 | 5:59 | | 161 | 163 | | 4 | 5:55 | 5:55 | | 164 | 167 | | 5 | 5:52 | 5:52 | | 166 | 168 | | 6 | 5:49 | 5:49 | | 167 | 169 | | 7 | 5:44 | 5:44 | -1% | 166 | 168 | | 8 | 5:42 | 5:42 | -1% | 166 | 167 | | 9 | 5:38 | 5:38 | -1% | 168 | 169 | | 10 | 5:48 | 5:48 | -1% | 167 | 169 | | Total | 58:30 | 5:50 | | 164 | 169 |
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