Thursday 26 August 2010

7.5 miles tempo

The club session was supposed to be a 50-minute out-and-back at half marathon pace. I was feeling a bit under the weather but eventually decided I could always bail out if I needed to. I had arrived slightly late and only managed half (0.6 miles) of the warm-up. There was a larger fast pack than usual, but it turned out that nobody was really inclined to push on at race pace and the whole pack stuck together all the way round. We headed through the top gate, down to Anniesland Cross, along Great Western Road and down Archerhill Road and Lincoln Avenue, then past Scotstoun. We hadn't quite reached Balshagray Avenue by the time we had to turn around. As usual we ended up being significantly quicker on the way back in. Distance came out at 7.47 miles, time 48:38 for a 6:31/mile average, HR 162. Ran a half-mile warm-down afterwards.

Pace splits (ave. HR): 7:01 (145), 6:34 (152), 6:30 (159), 6:43 (159), 6:12 (166), 6:06 (174), 6:18 (177), 6:56 (170)
HR zones: 0.7%, 1.1%, 46.5%, 49.2%, 2.5%

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