Today the schedule called for 60 minutes at easy pace, so Nathan and I met at the Edwin Warner Nature Center for an out and back route to the model airplane field via the park roads and the Harpeth River Greenway.
Back when John started coaching me at the first of May, he told me not to worry too much about a target pace on my scheduled easy runs, but to just go with how I felt on that particular day. Well today I felt TIRED, and for the first time in a long time all of my mile splits were over 9 minutes (especially when I wasn’t wearing my Hattoris).
I guess this was to be expected after a full day of travel on Saturday, followed by a 15-mile run at 10:30pm and preaching the next morning for a church that is an hour away. I didn’t feel bad, just felt like I was low on energy. Recently my easy days have turned into progression runs because I continue to feel better throughout the run. Today, however, that didn’t happen.
In total we finished just over 6.5-miles in the 60 minutes with an average pace of 9:15 per mile. Hopefully the energy will be back tomorrow for my scheduled tempo run. This will be my first ever run with a segment based on a target heart rate range. Should be interesting.
Beast Mode…ON!