mile what?

Tuesday evening:

My running scheduled called for 3 by 1600 meters at race pace (~7:18) with 90 second recovery between each in our neighborhood…last time I ran mile repeats was about a month before Chicago Marathon 2008. So I ran a proper warm-up as I then headed into the first 1600 after my body was properly at temperature…below are my repeats time with average & max HR per each:

7:17 – AHR 144bpm – MHR 148bpm
7:20 – AHR 145bpm – MHR 152bpm
7:25 – AHR 147bpm – MHR 152bpm

Ran a proper cool-down afterwards so I covered a total of 6 miles in 51:26 with an average HR of 132bpm. My times weren’t where they needed to be for a proper race pace workout as I got kind of got slower after each one but it’s been 8 months since I last ran mile repeats. The other thing is was 90 seconds between each enough time or did I need more recovery time? But it’s all training for which we learn from…;-)

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