6 mile out and back in North Logan at noon. Great lunch break. Awesome weather for this time of year, about 45 degrees.
I'm also starting a new training routine, which entails running 6 days a week and taking Sunday off. I don't know if I've ever run 6 days a week in my training (maybe once or twice). In the past I felt I've always needed one or two days off/cross training to let my legs recover and avoid injury.
On Sasha's site http://www.asksasha.com/Running/Top-10-Training-Mistakes.html, he mentions the following:
"Doing anaerobic speed work without proper aerobic base conditioning. If you are running less than 8 miles a day and/or less than 6 days a week, your extra energy should go into increasing the daily mileage and the number of training days per week rather than speed work. If you feel you have to reduce your aerobic mileage on the speed day or the day after, this also shows that anaerobic speed work is not something you need at the time."
So here goes another experiment: The next two weeks I'll run ~6 miles each day of the week, and take Sunday off. I may bump Saturday's run up a little, depending how I feel. I'll slowly build up from there... One thing I'll need to do is make sure I alternate speeds a little, and run slower at least two days of the week--hopefully to avoid shin splints, etc. Most of the time if I don't feel I ran around a 7:30 pace or faster, I have felt I haven't really had a good work-out. We will see how it goes...
I ran with my Garmin and my iPhone using Endomondo. Interesting comparisons. Garmin said 7:19/mile AP. Endomondo was 7:15/mile AP. I hit stop on my garmin 4 seconds before hitting stop on Endomondo:
| Mile |
Garmin |
iPhone with Endomondo |
| 1 |
6:41 |
6:34 |
| 2 |
7:48 |
7:46 |
| 3 |
7:58 |
8:01 |
| 4 |
6:55 |
6:50 |
| 5 |
6:58 |
6:46 |
| 6 |
7:34 |
7:24 |
| .x |
.04 in 0:18
|
.1 miles in 0:53 |
| Total Distance |
6.04 in 44:12 |
6.1 miles in 44:16 |
| 