May 30th, 2009 – Half Marathon Training Easy Run

After the run last night, I forgot that our planned time for the gym today was early morning.  UGH!  Even though the run was only supposed to be 5 miles, I knew it would not be an easy run.  Add in that today is a strength training day, and I was sure my body would be in full on revolt.

At least the run wasn’t as bad as it could have been.  I still stayed mostly in zone 2, and when I got into zone 3, it stayed mostly below the middle of the zone.  I still had a half mile of warm up and cool down, for some reason, so I wound up doing a total of six miles for the run.  I deliberately set the calibration factor back to 1 for the foot pod, so the distance was off yet again, but I am hoping this calibration will finally resolve my challenge.  I cannot believe the treadmill itself is off that much.  The last two runs missed as much as a quarter of a mile over the entire run.  HOW?

Housekeeping:  6.9 miles in 55:09 for an average of 9:11 per mile.  That’s down from prior easy runs, because I walked again to cool, but my middle 5 miles was still above pace so I’m not worried.  636 calories burned.  Also due to the walking.

I did my strength training as well, but had to cut it a bit short since we didn’t have 2 hours for child care.  Still, I felt pretty good as I ended the second week.  Now, if I could just get this nagging ache in most of my joints to stop, I’d probably be in pretty good shape.

Cheers!