These runs following speedwork days have steadily gotten longer. They started out around 3 miles, but have gone to 4 miles, then 5, and now 6. Fortunately, it appears that my legs have adapted as well - the initial speedwork days were so exhausting to my legs that they would be pretty well shot for a few days afterwards.
I made a mental mistake today in that I started out figuring I'd go for the 155-160 HR range. That had put me around the 9 min/mile pace for about 2 miles before it dawned on me that todays run, being after a speed work day, is supposed to be a recovery run, and therefore is supposed to be at a slower pace on purpose. I suppose it is good that I felt good enough to want to push things a little bit - but it did require consciously slowing down a few times during the run to keep my HR down a bit. Especially towards the end, when I was doing a quick calc of my overall pace - I was really tempted to dial up the pace for the last mile, but I had to keep telling myself that the point of todays run is recovery - not performance.
Total Distance: 6 Miles
Total Time: 58:28
Avg HR: 150
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