Yesterday at the boot-camp Russ offered that we can all run together a 5K course around the trail that we usually run the 1 mile TT. This was an off-the-record and non-boot-camp run. Both Bryce and I jumped on the idea - he needs to get more mileage before his relay run this weekend, and I wanted to get more testing of my Garmin Forerunner. We met around 8:15am and headed out to the trail. Russ roughly remembered from where to where the 5K distance would be, and we decided to compare his memory with what my GPS will show. Once we started the clock, we started to run fairly fast (~7min/mile pace) so at the corner (around 1/4 mile) we slowed down. We picked up the pace again on the stretches of straight path. We also tried to outrun the bugs which were swarming in large numbers.
For todays run I setup my GPS to mark laps every 1mile and also beep when I go over the max for my heart rate. This was working great as we get pretty easily split times while running. By the end of our run, I started closing on my max heart-rate, and about 1/2 of a mile before finish I had to slow down to keep it under 182. When we were less than 1/4 away from finish I picked up a little the pace (regardless of my heart-rate) to catch up with the other guys, so by the end I was at 186. I also had a brain fart near the end, when I pressed stop on my GPS at 3.01 mile mark, but in a split of a second I realized that it's a mistake and restarted the clock, for the final stretch to 3.1 mile mark.
Overall this was great run, but the bugs were extremely annoying. We made the whole run in roughly 24 minutes with an average pace of ~ 7:48/mile. Seems that I'm getting close to my desired pace, but I still need to get some mileage to be able to go for my ultimate goal - the marathon. the results are as always posted on the motionbased.com. Cheers!
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