Running Report afternoon of 5/26/15 -- 5/29/15

5/26/15 TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Ran three miles Tuesday afternoon as an additional workout to get some more miles in, albeit at a much slower pace.

1. 5.08
2. 4.37
3. 4.51
4. 5.05
5. 4.53
6. 4.56

Total time 29.33 average of 4.51 per mile

Day 8 miles
Week 13 miles
Month 113 miles
Year 378 miles

5/27/15 WEDNESDAY
Ran three miles untimed

Week 16 miles
Month 116 miles
Year 381 miles

5/28/15 THURSDAY
Ran three miles right after eating and it was like 89 degrees Farenheit (sp?) so it was a slog but I finished.  Here are my half my splits:

1. 4.00
2. 4.00
3. 3.53
4. 4.00
5. 4.07
6. 3.59

Total time 24.02 (with the addition of miliseconds it turns out to a little more usually).  Average of 8.01 per mile.

Week 19 miles
Month 119 miles
Year 384 miles

5/29/15 FRIDAY
Ran four miles for my weekly push the limits and hold on as long as you can run. 

1. 3.29
2. 3.32
3. 3.34
4. 3.32
5. 3.27
6. 3.23
7. 3.32
8. 3.20

Total time 27.51 average of 6.58 minutes per mile.  Headwind during segments two and three although not as bad as previous runs.  On the way back on half miles 6 and 7 there didn't seem to be as much tailwind in comparison.  However that could have been attributed to the fact that I just didn't feel it since I was running the same direction.  I was 90 degrees so that is as hot a temperature as I have run in all year.  My heart rate about 45 seconds after finishing was 146.  That is as high of a heart rate that I have had probably in the last ning months or so.  I really think the heat plays into that a little bit.  On Monday when I finished my last Yasso 800 so fast I was in way worse pain and my breathing was much more labored and yet my rate was much lower.  Granted I had only done two laps.  But it was at 5.42 pace for those two laps.  The other variable was that Mondays workout was at 6:30 a.m. with an approximate temperature in the 50's.  Anyway it just all comparisons, none of it scientific.  In addition to a workout like today increasing my physical fitness, I feel that my mental fitness increases as well.  Each half mile I had to play the mental game of focusing on the finish of the next half mile and not worrying about the rest.  Even in the last half mile I split it roughly in half.  I focused on maintaining my pace for the first half then I told myself for the last half I would be able to pick it up.  Then with a quarter of a mile every half a distance to the finish becomes twice as hard as the last. 

Week 23 miles
Month 123 miles
Year 388 miles