Last night was my first run at my newly recomputed 70% recovery floor of 136. Good news is that my average heart rate for the run was 134; bad news is that at some point I spiked to 143 and 28% of my run was above the recovery zone in the aerobic zone. Supposedly this is the toughest part of monitor training.... getting used to running slower to stay in recovery zone. I ended up having to walk inclines to stay at or near my 136 pace; I do believe that much of the 28% above zone was around 137 and that this will improve greatly with time and practice. My pace ended up being 10:40..... ouch!!! That number should decrease with time as well.
The good thing about easy days is that hard days follow. Depending on how I feel tonight, I may push my run tonight to see if I can get a new max HR in order to push all my zones up. Hopefully we'll be one of the lucky ones and catch a stray shower to cool temps dare I dream in the 80s. Stay cool out there.
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