no top end...

Thursday morning 03.20.08:

Note: I rested from exercising completely on Wednesday to let my body recover...

Ran my scheduled FIRST repeat session in the neighborhood before work, first time since prior to LBCM 2007 that I have run a speed workout early in the morning.

The FIRST program wanted me to run 8 by 800 meters in approximately 3:13 with 90 second recovery after each one so below in what actually happened per repeat with average & max HR values for each:

800 meters - 3:29 - AHR 142bpm - MHR 147bpm
800 meters - 3:23 - AHR 141bpm - MHR 147bpm
800 meters - 3:28 - AHR 139bpm - MHR 146bpm
800 meters - 3:27 - AHR 138bpm - MHR 148bpm
800 meters - 3:34 - AHR 138bpm - MHR 143bpm
800 meters - 3:31 - AHR 138bpm - MHR 144bpm
800 meters - 3:30 - AHR 138bpm - MHR 144bpm
800 meters - 3:30 - AHR 139bpm - MHR 145bpm

One word describes how I felt and did during these repeats...HORRIBLE

Nothing just felt right during this repeat workout session...from my hips down everything was very sore & tight though the whole running session and thats even after a 2.1 mile warm-up portion. Also my breathing was taxed the whole time, my HR values were no where near where they normally are for a repeats session of this sort...crimped about 10 beats lower then where they should have been...and obviously I wasn't even close to hitting my required repeat pace times

Plan and simply my body was exhausted still but I chugged through it all at got in 7.9 running miles for the session...

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