4th Album, 4th Picture & MidWeek Rundown
I wasn't tagged by anyone, regarding this 4th Album/4th Picture thing. But when has something as miniscule as social isolation prevented me from participating? Never!
Hence, my 4th Album/4th Picture:
Earlier this winter Ellie and I took Parsenn out for some snowshoeing. This picture shows his approach to navigating the snow--simply stay behind me and walk in my footsteps. The only problem? This results in him stepping on my shoes constantly. By the end of this walk I think he was doing it intentionally...either to try and get me to fall down or to hitch a free ride back to the car.
MidWeek Rundown
As the last post had mentioned, I was in a bit of a funk last week, but have been doing great thus far this week. Through Thursday, I've got 29 miles in! It started on Monday, where after work I had to get out for a bit, so Parsenn and I did a 5 mile loop in town (7:14 pace). It was a balmy 9 degrees out, and I sweated through my 17 layers of technical fabric.
Tuesday morning my alarm was going off at 5:18 am in the kitchen, right next to the coffee pot. Within a single cup of coffee I was out into the -2 weather, freezing my @$$ off for the first couple miles, but I managed to get in 8 miles at 7:41 pace.
Again Wednesday morning, with even more soreness in the legs, the alarm and coffee pot were beeping away, and I managed...barely...7 miles at 7:37 pace. I'll be honest...I couldn't tell much of a difference between Tuesday's -2 and Wednesday's 6. Both are classified "F. C."
It was nice to see my HR data from the Icebreaker Marathon finally pop up on the computer (MotionBased). My avg HR ended up being 156...but that was after I forgot to stop the watch for about 5 minutes post run, so I'll call it 158. It's interesting to know that, considering this week's runs:
- Icebreaker - 26.2 Miles, 7:23 Pace, 158 AvgHR
- Monday - 5 Miles, 7:14 Pace, 159 AvgHR
- Tuesday - 8 Miles, 7:41 Pace, 152 AvgHR
- Wednesday - 7 Miles, 7:37 Pace, 156 AvgHR
- Thursday - 9 Miles, 7:49 Pace, 161 AvgHR (but that included a sprint along a major highway that spiked my HR)
7 people checked to see if Glaven has commented yet:
If I were Parsenn, I would have chosen a similar method for tromping through snow.
i can't wait to find out my proper zones.... but interestingly, 156 is so far what i've calculated to be the upper limit of my aerobic zone, which I tend to have to "run" 13min miles to stay there!! Awesome job on those F.C. runs.
that is a great photo
I though your HR for the 26.2 should be higher that for the shorter runs as my HR steadily climbs with distance for a given pace. I can run say 07:30 pace over 8 miles at about 140/145HR but on a marathon that avg HR would climb to 165+.
Dude a indoor marathon ? You are one tuff guy.
I'm surprised Parsenn didn't get a jaw full of snowshoe with that technique!
3 things:
Nice runs! Great workouts!
Are you really doing TC Marathon this Oct? I'll be there with my chicken suit on!
Finally, I fixed the "same picture" issue. Oops. Thanks for pointing that out!
Have a good weekend!!
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