Although my sinuses are still filled with a bunch of yuck (I swear I’ve gone through an entire Kleenex box this past week), thank goodness I felt well enough to get back to running. I truly missed it but knew my body needed rest. However, come Monday I was lacing up my running shoes.<\/p>\n
Since I hadn’t done any form of exercise for a week — running or otherwise — I took it very slow, averaging a little under 10-minute miles for the 3 1\/2 mile run. To ensure an easy pace I loaded up the iPod with mellow music, letting Marvin<\/a> serenade me as I wound around Greenlake. Spring is in full bloom and I savored the fragrant bouquet of apple blossoms and the flowers of the ash tree (the smell of which reminds me of cherry Jolly Ranchers). By the time I got home I had a treat<\/a> waiting for me at my neighbor’s house (he was there to sign for the UPS package — Yippee!).<\/p>\n On Wednesday I took the Garmin out for its inaugural run, along with the heart rate monitor. I still need to figure out my maximum heart rate; if I go by age then it’s 184 (I read somewhere women should subtract their age from 227 rather than 220), but I realize that’s not the most accurate. I sprinted a couple of times to see how high I could get it; both times it was about 172, which seems low. I can’t afford to pay for an accurate test right now, so I’m just going to wear the HRM on every run for a while and see what it does.<\/p>\n For Thursday’s run I left the heart monitor at home since my darling and I were just doing a quick inside loop jaunt. However, since I came within 7 seconds of a PB I wish I had strapped it on. Next time! But at least the Garmin confirmed the distance of the two Greenlake paths were what we thought: 2.8 miles for the inside loop and 3.2 for the outside. When we downloaded our route afterwards it even showed a blip where my darling ran off-course to go play on the rings.<\/p>\n For Saturday’s 12-mile run I had programmed an 8 minute running\/1 minute Gallowalking workout into the Garmin Training Center on my computer (my goal was to run those 8 minutes at a 10 1\/2 to 10 3\/4 minute pace with a 16 minute walk pace), but somehow the transfer to the device got screwed up. As I began running it kept telling me to slow down; once it got to the walk pace I realized it was telling me to keep a 25 minute pace! At that point I stopped the workout and just kept track of my run to walk ratio manually. I was pretty much on target, averaging 10 3\/4 minute miles (my goal is 11 minute miles for my long runs).<\/p>\n The best part about using the Garmin is knowing I can deviate from my route and I’ll still know how far I’ve gone. In the past I just used a Thomas Guide and a pair of dividers. My darling always loves to go off the trail, yet I would refuse to follow him since it would mess up my mileage calculations (yes, I’m anal in that respect<\/a>). Can’t beat technology, can you?<\/p>\n This coming week will most likely be a low mileage one as I’m heading to L.A. this weekend for a food styling workshop. But my hotel is about 2 miles from the studio, so I’m hoping I can at least get some walking in. I think I’ll bring Garmin along just in case I get lost \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although my sinuses are still filled with a bunch of yuck (I swear I’ve gone through an entire Kleenex box this past week), thank goodness I felt well enough to get back to running. I truly missed it but knew my body needed rest. However, come Monday I was lacing up my running shoes. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}