Good job labduck on your successful return!! and an extra special shoutout to Mrs. labduck as well.<br><br>
congrats to gin and mrs. hup also<br><br>
Rinda- I guess there's no stopping you now!!<br><br>
Finally, after 2 weeks of this freezing fog we've been having, a great day in southern Oregon. Blue sky and puffy white clouds all around. Typical southern Oregon rainy season weather is either rain, or, if not raining, cold fog. The day after the rain stops is always nice and then the fog comes in again.<br><br>
Anyway low 40's t-shirt weather warming to low 50's by end of run. 1st long run with the Garmin, I could go wherever I wanted, so I ended up starting at the gym and doing a couple miles on a usual route and then going down and crossing over the river, running down the bike path behind the fairgrounds, and then along the Redwood Highway bike path down to the college before turning around and coming back. A whole new world was revealed. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy"><br><br>
15.05 miles in 2:24:04 9:34 pace 139 average HR and ending with the last 1.05 uphill miles in 9:09 (8:43 pace) 157 average HR (millbot fast finish™). The goal was to average a 9:45 pace, which is near the middle of my McMillan LR zone, so I need to work a little more on holding the pace I want. I think I've come up with what I want displayed on the Garmin screens now, overall pace big, overall distance & time small on one. Overall time big, avg. lap heartrate and avg. lap pace small on another, this being the one I'll use in races and for most of my training. I've got current pace & heartrate along with time of day on the other, but the current pace is constantly changing, I don't think it's of much use, so I'll have to come up with something else.<br><br>
One thing I noticed was the HR stayed pretty much in the mid 130's the first 9 miles, then crept up into the low-mid 140's the next 5. I'm thinking this was because most of the way back is overall uphill, either that or I was tired. I really need to determine my max HR, I understand that a good time to determine it would be during the last hard run portion of a set of intervals. Just go all out and see what it says.<br><br>
I see I've obviously turned into a Garmin numbers geek, sorry <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Smile"> . I should have got this years ago, I'd have it out of my system by now.
regon and my son went to the movies with a friend this afternoon, so I felt like I should have taken advantage of this and gone for a run . . . instead I made homemade brownies (no boxed brownies here) for DH, banana bread for DS and and mixed up homemade pasta sauce for baked ravioli for tonight. Now my feet hurt from standing in the kitchen for 2 hrs! But I have tomorrow off, so I'll get in a long run tomorrow.<br><br>
