There appears to be an new division that may a landing at ground zero to battle fatigue, failure, and discouragement. They would be the capillaries that have been secretly setting up new blood lines to nourish the Quads and Calves as the legs make there longer runs now.
They did such a good job of preparing for Saturday that Brain hardly knew what was going on.
We found an area along University Ave where there was a park with a winding trail and great kite flying hills. Lisa and I ran the trail while Frank and Miranda flew a kite. I don't know what Judy did to start but I know she spent a good deal of the time untying kite string.
Lisa and I found the "0" mile marker and began to run. We checked our time for the mile distance to the "1" mile marker. Then we continued back around to the "0" marker again. Based on our pace we determined that the whole loop was about 1.3 to 1.4 miles so our 3 loops got us our 4 miles for the day.
We started with a 5 run 2 walk pace for the 1st mile, 4 1/2, 2 for the second mile and a 4,2 for the third. The second mile went a little slower than the first so we had to kick it for the final stretch before the mile marker. We were about 8 seconds off our pace for that mile. We tried some water and Power Gel before we finished lap two and reached the "0" marker again. This time we went a little faster up the uphill and when we reached the level area approaching the "1" mile marker we had gained a lot of extra time. We kicked it again and this time we completed the mile in 14:08. We went the rest of the .3 miles to finish our 3 loops and then walked back to the family. Heart rate stayed in the aerobic range the whole time except for the final few strides of the last part since I was running to complete the run and cross the finish line without regard to the BPM or the Huffing and Puffing. By the time we walked back to the rest of the family the Heart Rate was well down into the 110's.
Today we went to a street fair with a lot of walking and standing and carrying Granddaughter on shoulders so this afternoon was kinda tired to say the least. Lisa pointed out that sleep is the time when the body rebuilds muscle so I did some heavy duty rebuilding for about two hours before dinner. I am feeling pretty good now so it must have worked.
Even though I was not in Tampa to run with the group, we still managed to get a really good distance run in and since I had not previously done 4 miles, I have now crossed another marker in my journey to that 13.1 run. Yea!
Working this week on more fund raising to get those numbers up.
That is all for tonight.
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yeah blood flow! gotta love it when the vessels take oxygen to the muscles, really helps lower the burning sensations...congrats on taking the next step toward the big goal, i think i will be moving into the 4 range on saturday, looking forward to getting there with you. and really looking forward to getting all the way there with you!
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