After a long day of sitting around and doing shopping, I was literally hoping around at dinner. I suggested a run and Steph said, 'sounds great, but it's late.' Undaunted, I strapped on my running shoes and jumped out to start my run at 9:42.
Finishing 34 minutes later I'd put another 4.3 miles in the bag. That and I'd run both the Brooklyn Bridge and the loop around City hall. For comparison, I ran this same course (minus City Hall) in late 2007 - but in 32 minutes. Thus I effectively ran around City Hall in 2 minutes (which is impossible).
Details:
4.3 miles
34 Degrees (22 degrees w/ windchill)
Pace: 7:47 average
(pace was 7:24 on the return part of the Bridge when I pushed the tempo)
Average Heart Rate: 164 (which is high for a recovery run, but this was more of a 'I had a light but fast weekend' run, which means all bets were off)
Pumped it up to 183 on the uphill before shutting it down and cruising on the downhill side of the bridge.
General overall feeling: amazing. I've been feeling down lately during my running as the reality that I'm not going to run a 7 minute pace for the Marathon sets in - that's a longer time on the road. But this pace (7:40's) felt pretty great, even though this was admittedly very short. My stated goal for the Marathon will be 8 mins flat. But my stretch goal will be in the 7:45 area. And I think I can reach it.
Mostly I just enjoyed pushing the tempo on the vertical seeming uphill of the way out of Manhattan - there's something about pumping that hill that just feels great. That and the fact that the V. Narrows bridge is there, out over the right shoulder, gleaming green in the distance.
I love my new slower paced system, but sometimes you just have to burn a little rubber.
Recovery:
2 mins: solid 100/99 bpm
5 min: 93 bpm
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