Second Run Thursday

Yesterday after work I need to stretch out my calves so I hit the trail in the backyard for 6 loops and a grand total of 5.6K.  

No running today as I have a lung burner tomorrow morning.  

Lunch Run

5K the same way as yesterday.  May be the last run before Saturdays lung burner.  May be ablt to squeeze in a little trail this eve.

Purge

It would be so easy to skip a Run but most of the time when I am feeling less then perfect a Run makes me feel a whole lot better!  I am not sure whether it was all the Green Apples , the 4 Beer in the Hammock after last eves trail or perhaps the KFC that I more or less gorged myself on less night but today was one of those less then perfect sort of days.   The Heart Rate was much lower ...sitting  tying up my shoes it was 45 bpm.   Hitting max speed at the 4K Farltek it was 141 BPM and then at the tail end of my cool down it dropped to the mid 90s!   The run also helped to move things along and now I feel a little bit more like I usually do ... almost perfect!  

2nd Run Tuesday

 Nothing like a little trail to cure what ales!  Upper right leg pain persists ... a familiar ache that I know I can run through.  Nothing a little 5.5K of trial cant cure.  

 Some time in the next little bit 3 guys that I work with are going to lay out some $$ and race my trial ...6 loops.    I typically run my loop rather slow but last night I did a "hot" lap and a bit logging a K at a 6:30 pace.   The loop runs so much different fast ... corners are tighter and the hills are higher.  I think my fastest absolutely giving K would come in somewhere around 6:00!  

Because three is better then 1

3X4:45 farleks today logging 7K at the usual pace on my meal break.


Looking at the data this week my cadence has dropped.   When I am recovering from a long run and am suffering muscle pain my cadence and heart rate are higher.   Avg pace through this run was 5:00 and when I did my fartlek at a 4:45 pace the cadence increases.  Cadence should remain the same regardless of pace but thats just the way I Run.

Back to work

5K done the same as every day last week.   There was no run yesterday ... was doing firewood,  I like to think of it as cross-training!

May 2015 Totals

May    276.9 km
YTD  1333.2 km

One race in May the Sulphur Springs 50 Miler.   Logged 12 Trail Runs logging  179.6 km  and  12 Treadmill runs logging 97 km.

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