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[mlewis73]

Something's wrong. Something in the water, perhaps?

I have a horse/foot race coming up (ride and tie-2 people must cover a 13 mile course, together, by foot and by horseback) and have been increasing my mileage lately to prepare. Ran 10 miles on Saturday... on my way to 13 mile runs once a week.

Yesterday I ran 3 miles at about 160bpm on the heart rate monitor. Ran 4 miles today at the same heart rate, although went ahead to 170 on some of the longer hills and for the last quarter mile.

I set a new PB yesterday for the 3 mile run, but noted a big time improvement in my PB on the 4 mile run today... nearly 2 minutes faster than previous personal bests (which were done on flat land, not in hilly Monterey). Wasn't even really pushing.

I have a hypothesis that someplace near 160bpm seems to be a sustainable heart rate for me... anything much higher (166+) seems to not be sustainable and sometimes forces a slowdown later. Been awhile since I've used the HRM... so just seeing results of training on rugged terrain for the last 4 months.

I'm HOPING that 1.5 mile and 5k times will improve... have not done any speed work in a few months... my "normal" run is a hilly/sandy 4 mile run on trails.

[Guest]

Hey Mike, Haven't heard from you in a while. This is Micah, I am posting as a guest because I am not at home and I may have forgot my password and can't log in.

What you are describing with your training is similar to a theory I have run across on Joe Henderson's website. The theory is that running at a steady, but challenging pace, will lead to improvements in performance. The idea is to run training runs of close to the same distance and effort everyday. The pace should be one minute per mile slower than race pace. When you race faster then speed up the training runs accordingly.

[Dan]

I think it's called not shooting your wad too early.

Dan
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[mlewis73]