06.26.2019 Wednesday

Morning!

I start the day at 5:00 AM with a 12-mile.  I am on week #2 of my new training plan.  I have switched gears from Sprint Triathlon training to Marathon and 70.3 training in preparation for September/October races.  So...I was running slower today than I have in about 8 months. The slower pace felt a little more natural this week than it did on last week's long run.  It will still take a few weeks to get used to the long runs though.

Have a Great day everyone. 

The heat training works.  I did the Boulder 70.3 last years.  That race is in August and I had a feeling it would be warm on the run during that race. 

I had short easy recovery runs in my training plan and so I did them on my lunch break.  Garmin connect gave me a "reward" for doing a work out in over 100 deg F. so I know that some of the training runs were in triple digits although I didn't ever bother to actually check or log what the temperature was from any of those workouts.   My key runs were all between 4:45 AM - 7:00 AM  when it was never over about 75 deg F.  My goal of the lunch runs in triple digits was to see how much I had to slow down to stay in the same HR range on the afternoon runs and I trained at in the morning.  It worked.  On race day when it was in the 90's when I go off the bike I knew exactly how hard I could run without the HR spiking. Being able to race correctly in the race day conditions was a huge advantage.