not fig newtons...

Thursday morning:

After deciding late yesterday afternoon to not to go to my first group track workout for the season due to not only the very high winds in our region but some nagging post-marathon semi-injuries I’m dealing with I made it two complete rest days in a row as I took a ice bath last night for 30 minutes to help speed up healing…

So this morning I had 4 – 1200 meter repeats to do with 2:15 recovery walk/jog time. I’m following McMillian’s forecasted time for the 1200’s to be between 4:56 to 5:11 time frame. Below are my split times with both average & max HR values per each:

1200meters – 5:07 – AHR 146bpm – MHR 151bpm
1200meters – 5:08 – AHR 145bpm – MHR 154bpm
1200meters – 5:12 – AHR 146bpm – MHR 155bpm
1200meters – 5:11 – AHR 146bpm – MHR 152bpm

I ran a total of 6.8 miles as I did an extended ez warm-up to get my body going and a slightly extended cool-down portion. I also worn my Newton running shoes to break them in a little more and I gotta say that I am liking them so far. As for the repeats themselves they felt pretty good every though I was not pushing them 100% mainly due to my body still recovering some what…

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