Today I wanted to do another long run - maybe 15 miles or so. My thought has been that the more endurance I can build before surgery and recovery time over the winter, the better off I'll be in the spring.
The problem with that line of thinking became evident today. When looking at the list of things I needed to get done, it was going to be difficult to get a full 2 hour run in during daylight. I even thought 'well maybe this weekend going for a run just isn't going to work'. Then it occured how stupid I was being - I could get an hour run in - and I was of them mindset that unless I was doing a long run, there was no point. Maybe I couldn't get a long run in - but 6 miles is still a good distance.
So todays run just ended up being more of a tempo/fartlek run. After a couple miles at the 9 to 9:30 pace and a HR of about 155 - I sped up a bit to a HR of 160, with some random sections of 170. If I felt like charging up a hill, I would. If I felt like slowing down a bit, I would.
Total Distance: 6 Miles
Total Time: 53:30
Avg HR: 164
I'm also finding that my conditioning is falling off, without running nearly as often as I was during training. It's not surprising that this is happening - but it is a little surprising how quickly it is happening. Perhaps a large part is that I was only training for 2 months. Had I been running 3-5 times/week for something like 2 years, maybe the drop off wouldn't be quite as dramatic.
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