I thought I set new personal records. The sad thing is that the records were not in time or distance, but heart rates. Using the average of 4 different heart rate formulas, my max heart rate should be 179.4. Before today, 2 of my last 4 runs hit 190. Today, I took it up to 191. This is still not near the highest. I have about 30 runs in which I've been 190+, including 2 at 198. In the Country Music Marathon (April 30, 2011), I hit 232 - that was either a malfunction or I'm lucky to be alive. My recovery was 191 to 118. I just knew the 73 point difference had to be the biggest ever. Wrong. On May 26, 2011, I had a 75 (189-114) point recovery.
Mile 3 proved to be my slow mile once again and stopped me from having all 6 of my miles under 9:00. Mile 1 was 8:40 - good, but would be nearly impossible to maintain. I didn't hear the watch beep indicating Mile 2, so I didn't get to see the split time. I wasn't too far past the mark when I looked at my watch, and by my total time I thought it was over 9:00. It was close at 8:56. The killer mile in 9:06. I didn't set out to run hard - I was actually worried about how Monday's 12 miler would affect this run - but once I saw that Mile 4 was at 8:41, and that I had a chance to finish at a pace under 9:00, I began pushing. Miles 5 (8:23) and 6 (7:58) were my fastest 2. Total time: 51:45. Pace: 8:38.
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