Rainy 12C today in Tokyo and that is not going to change anytime soon according to the forecasts. But what are windbreaker vests good for, right? Lucky me I packed one in this morning. Still, getting motivated on grey days like this always feels twice as hard as usual. A nice lunch would have been the right thing to do but instead I headed out into the rain.
Traction was obviously worse but the splits seemed OK and soon I realized I was going at a much faster clip than planned. Somehow I like getting these 4:00/k (6:26/Mi) paced workouts out of the way early in the week. I did it last week on Tuesday and again today. I don't want to wait until Friday when I can already pull it today - who knows how I'll feel at the end of the week. I find a 4:00/k (6:26/Mi) pace demanding and when my 'recovery control center' signals all clear and I feel like it, I better get these runs in the bag when I can - not when I am supposed to. Of course it disrupts the carefully structured and well thought through plan but I take this plan as a better guideline only and adjust.
I started looking at HR's again after cleaning the transmitter. I averaged 4:00/k (6:26/Mi) during the base level test and ran 19 times with the HR monitor, averaging 157 bpm. Today's workout was 6 bpm (or 3% of HRmax) lower than that. Interesting.
Week 3, Mo: 11.4k @ 4:00/k (7.1 Mi @ 6:26/Mi) @ 151 avgHR (79.5%)
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