Super warm low double digits made for shorts and a long sleeve tech T. I hit the backyard trial logging 5.3 K with Dax along for the run. The snow was slushy but mostly a few cm in depth with the occasion 10+ cm making for a wee bit of post holing. It was tough but super great to be out on the trail!
Saturday was a rest day.
Sunday - 12 km on the treadmill at work. Wanted to take it outside but it was windy and +2C quiet nasty. Ramped up from a 7:30 pace to a 6:00 pace over the first 3K then geared it down to a nice walk, 12:00 pace for 2K.
Not the usual 5K but I got it done. It was a slow ramp up to a 6:00 pace holding it for 2K then walking the last K.
Weigh in , 183 lbs .... back where I was in November!
Took the weekend off running was just too busy with other stuff. Back to work this week on Eves. Hit the treadmill logging a 5K @ 6:00 pace.
Just wrapped up a string of days logging my last noon hour lunch run for awhile another 5K @ 6:00 pace.
After yesterdays "speed" the 5K @ 6:00 pace felt a wee bit harder then it should have been.
Go figure! It would be great if someone in Singapore could leave a comment LOL!
Re-Fridgee Eighter 8 Mile is in the books way faster then planned. Grant came down with me and as Grant usually does he gets a wee bit faster every K until he finishes the guy is a machine!
Garmin splits tell the story ...
Fitbit HR was pretty accurate. At around the 10K mark, 56 min I felt pretty taxed look at the watch and I was doing around 158 bpm...pushing it! I told Grant to push ahead and I backed off for a bit recovering the HR to mid 140s before gradually picking it up again in the last 2.5 km.
The last K was a 5:18 pace , no doubt a negative split today!
I was only a few Ks in when I took my shell off. I was running in a Underarmour Base , tight and light and an old ATB long Sleeve T plus tights...still too warm for the pace. There was a breeze and the temps were hovering around the freezing mark.
So it was quite a surprise to run a 5:43 pace when the my goal was somewhere around a 7:00 to 7:30 pace. I just ran at Grants pace , or at least I tried...came close.
I finished in 1:13:33, 139 out of 217 participants , 95th out of 131 men and 7th out of 9 men in the 60-69 AG. Grant logged 1:12:04 129th overall and 5th in the same AG as me.
Saturday , 8.2 Km out and back on a closed snowmobile trail . Sunday , 5.1 K out and back on the 2nd.
