Last night was cold and rainy - and I hate running in that type of weather - so I got my gym bag ready last night. I rolled out of bed as my wife brought my son back to his room, weighed myself (I only gained 1/2 pound last week with Thanksgiving festivities - not too shabby - however, I will be back to counting calories this week), and got into my workout clothes.
I was at the gym and on a treadmill a few minutes before 6am. The plan was to do four easy miles. I started out warming up at 4.8mph - slower than a 12 min mile, and my HRM was giving me false readings in the 150s and 160s. I'm used to this happening while I warm up - usually for the first quarter mile. However, this kept on going on for over a mile. WTF?!?!?!? A quarter of a mile into my run I was thinking, perhaps I'm coming down with something and I should keep it slow? However, as I passed the half mile mark and my HR was still being shown in that range while I felt really relaxed and fine, I decided that the readings were most likely bogus and started to up the tempo a bit. Around 1.1 miles in - while I was at 5.2 mph, my HR finally showed in the 130s and stayed there for a bit.
By 2.5 miles in, I was up to 5.7 mph (about a 10:30 mile pace) and my HR was up in the high-140s. I settled in there for the rest of my run. 4 miles, 44:38, 146 average HR (well, kinda - who the heck knows what my real average HR was...).
It was a blah, boring, uneventful run at the gym. I will likely brave the cold tomorrow so I can run in the glorious outdoors!
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