give me those 800's...

Tuesday evening:

My running scheduled called for 5 by 800 meters at pace (~3:18) with 90 second recovery between each in our neighborhood as I took Monday as a rest day from exercising. So I ran a proper warm-up as I then headed into the first 800 after I felt warmed up correctly…below are my repeats time with average & max HR per each:

3:31 – AHR 142bpm – MHR 146bpm
3:31 – AHR 139bpm – MHR 148bpm
3:34 – AHR 141bpm – MHR 146bpm
3:33 – AHR 140bpm – MHR 148bpm
3:35 – AHR 140bpm – MHR 146bpm

Ran a proper cool-down afterwards so I covered a total of 5.6 miles in 49:49 with an average HR of 148bpm. My times weren’t anywhere near where they needed to be for a proper race pace workout. Matter of fact my pace was not even in my cruise pace interval repeat timeframe which is ~3:29. I could tell during the whole running time that I felt very fatigued & tired the whole way as usually this will go away after a few miles…no such luck last night. The other indicator of me not being totally recovered is I will normally get my max HR into the 155 to 160bpm zone for 800’s so you can see my HR was crimped due to fatigue…

It’s still early season and it’s in the books which is what matters most to me :-)

b