There aint no hills in Arkansas!
One of the reasons why the Galloway plan piqued my interest is because the runs during the week are not incredibly involved - which suites me well in the cases where I am travelling for work. Cases like this week when I am in Little Rock, AR for a few days.
Fortunately, the hotel I picked is right on the Arkansas river, and there is a bit of a walk/bike/run path along the river. So I didn't have to be stuck between the decision to run on a treadmill, or finding some sort of urban path through streets.
The path along the river, at least in the area where the hotel is, isn't too awful long - but its fine for a relatively short run. So that is what I did today.
Total Distance: 3.4 miles
Total Time: 31:33
Avg HR: 149
The first thing that jumps out is that todays run was just over 9 min/mile, with the HR around 150. This is the goal HR I have for these non-intense workouts, and it is pretty obvious how much of an effect hills (or lack thereof) have during a run. Since the course was very flat, it was pretty easy to maintain a HR of 150, and I was pleasantly surprised that the speed was in the low 9 min/mile, since many of my runs lately have had substantially higher HR (high 150's to low 160's) for the same speed.
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