Jogged the 0.53 miles down to St George's Cross with Natasha in the morning to get the Underground to Shields Road for the M74 Bike'n'Hike. It wasn't actually a race, although we had to wear numbers. I had decided to aim for 6:30/mile regardless of who else might have turned up. I didn't recognise many people at the start and after about a mile I was in 6th place and only just outside my goal pace. The road was unfinished in a couple of places and cyclists were an occasional hazard. I was having some HR strap problems and noticed a reading of 208 which was clearly wrong, although after I adjusted the strap it settled down to something more plausible.
On reaching the halfway point we turned round and ran back up the opposite carriageway, straight into a headwind. I moved up a couple of places almost immediately, leaving a runner without a club vest, a Kirkintilloch Olympian and a Clydesdale Harrier ahead of me. The road was actually quite dull to run on but I battled the wind and stuck to my plan. I didn't lose any time climbing the last significant hill after Cathcart Road and continued past the start down the off-ramp in search of some kind of finish line. There wasn't one, just a lot of cyclists hanging about, so I restarted the Garmin and ran back under the bridge and up the on-ramp again at a much easier pace to meet up with Natasha and run back in.
8.29 miles in 53:31, average pace 6:27/mile, HR 169
Pace splits (ave. HR): 6:33 (174), 6:39 (169), 6:25 (191), 6:24 (159), 6:28 (165), 6:32 (166), 6:20 (162), 6:23 (165), 6:08 (162)
HR zones: 0.2%, 0.3%, 20.1%, 62.7%, 16.7%
1.92 miles in 14:17, average pace 7:27/mile, HR 148
Pace splits (ave. HR): 7:19 (149), 7:34 (146)
HR zones: 0.0%, 20.5%, 68.3%, 11.2%, 0%
In the afternoon I ran the Queen Margaret Drive loop at an easy pace. 2.49 miles in 18:47, average pace 7:33/mile, HR 132.
Pace splits (ave. HR): 8:01 (128), 7:19 (134), 7:06 (137)
HR zones: 4.0%, 92.8%, 3.2%, 0%, 0%
Weekly total: 34 miles
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