Archive for December 8th, 2008

I wasn’t feeling like doing anything strenuous today, the windchill was lower 20s and I was cold inside the house, which makes it even harder to get your ass outside.  I thought about doing it tomorrow – it’ll be 10 degrees warmer, but there’s some wind with that, so between the two, the cold day won.  I ended up sticking my running clothes in the dryer for a couple minutes to warm them up.

I was all excited to use my HR strap because I wanted to make sure I was in the right zone with these new faster paces.  Much to my chagrin, as soon as I started the tempo, the HR got wonky, so I spent the first half mile fussing with my jacket, the strap and my MP3 player that unclipped itself while I was busy rearranging.  Finally I gave up.  It did seem to get better after I finished the tempo portion and messed around with it some more.  Might have been too loose.

Anyway, ’twas a good 7 w/3-mile tempo, avg. tempo pace 7:30.  Splits were 7:35 (thanks to HR fussing), 7:29 & 7:26.  No complaints.