Weekend Runs

Saturday's run was really good albeit my warm-up and cool-down parts were slightly fast. The high zone 1 and low zone 2 sections were right where they were supposed to be.

A number of my warm-ups and cool-downs have been too fast lately. When I run with a group that may be one thing but on my own is another. I need to keep these warm-ups more gradual. When I run with the guys on the longer runs they tend to start in my low zone 1. For the most part that doesn’t feel bad. The guys don’t really tend to get going until after 3k or so.

Saturday’s strength and conditioning workout was good but I did find that I wasn’t as focused as I would have liked. I still finished everything that I was suppose to which was good.

Sunday’s run was interesting. If I had never looked at the watch I would have said it was a really great run, one of my better runs. Looking the average numbers for each segment of the run tells me that I was generally one speed zone high for each section. Please take my Garmin to the roof and through it off (just kidding).

I think after a couple of weeks of struggling to hit the right pace zones I’ll have to go back to setting up the watch to beep every k and display the time for the last k. Looking at the current pace is proving inconsistent at best. I’m sure the longer that I run in these zones that more easily it will be too hit these targets.

One really good thing from the weekend was that I certainly felt really comfortable in the new zones. Don’t get me wrong, these were still good workouts but I felt okay in the zones. I’m still burning a lot of carbs at the moment but time will help with that.

Weight was right around 191-2 all weekend. Hopefully most of this week will be 190-191. This morning was 192.4.

On a side note related to the weight loss. Bought new pants on the weekend. The waist was 2-3 inches less than when I bought the last pair of pants. My old belts just hang on the new pants. :-)

I also hit 95k last week which was really cool.