The 16 mile distance is where my body usually starts feeling the training, so I have decided to start tracking my thoughts during my training until Boston in April. Hopefully, I will be able to look back for myself and share with others my training gains.
Today was my second 16 mile run for this training session. My first 16 miler I averaged 8:57/mi with an average heart rate of 165. For me 165 is a casual, comfortably heart rate. Today I averaged 8:33/mi with an average hear rate of 170.
The temperature was a bit cold for my likely but is supposedly the optimum temperature. It was 50 degrees at the beginning and only reaching 53 by the end. It was a morning run. The wind was crazy. www.weather.com said the wind was 19mph NW. It felt a lot stronger then that. There was constant wind gusts.
I decided to set my laps so I could relate my head wind to tail wind differences. I made sure to keep my heart rate the same in both directions. I ended up averaging 8:45/mi with a head wind and 8:11/mi with a tail wind.
Now to how I felt. I was cold, the first thing I wanted to so when I finished was take a nice hot shower. A couple hours later, I am still cold. I was really glad that the last mile was a tail wind, because I was done. Stretching felt well, there was no tightness any where. My muscles feel a lot more sore than normal. I wonder if this is from running 8 miles hard yesterday instead of taking a day off, or it was the head wind. I will see more on my recovery run tomorrow.
To end the day, I thought I'd let you know that I wore a new running outfit today and loved it. Green/Charcoal/light blue matching tank top and Nike running skirt. Nike called the light blue sage, but it is not green, it is more blue.
Talk again soon :)
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