Thursday, June 4, 2009

Stuck in LaLa Land

I just went back and read an older Ask Coach Jenny article from earlier this year. The article dealt with the common question of what pace you should be running during your workouts. This one sentence pretty much sums up my running the past five months:

"Most people train in the middle -- in what I call "La-La Pace," which is too fast to be slow, and too slow to be fast."

Now that I'm in a 1/2 marathon training window and actually have a schedule to follow, I need to concentrate on training at the correct paces. I may actually put the rarely used heart rate monitor component of my Garmin 305 to work and try training within the proper heart rate zones. I need to figure out my max heart rate though before I can begin zone training. I'll get to the track in the next week or so and run all out to estimate my max hr.

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