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Post by:Brad Hefta-Gaub

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm  |  No Comments »

 

Commute RUN

First day of school means convocation, a huge gathering where all the families for the entire K-12 school come out and listen to speakers kick off the new school year. Including a speach from a 5th, 8th, and 11th grade student. Good stuff.

My wife had some volunteer work to do after convocation, so the plan was, we all drive to the first day of school, and then I would run home.

It’s about 3 miles from school to home, so I chose to take a longer route that included some nice hills.

I didn’t know the exact distances so I chose to use a run “10 minutes, walk till my heart rate dropped below Zone 1″ strategy.  This means approximately run 10 minutes, walk 30 seconds. And I basically planned to run for an hour. My hope was that my pace would be about 9:00/mile, and it turns out I hit that pace pretty excactly.

My slowest “laps” were my first lap which included a huge steep (almost cliff face) descent, that I walked down. And my last full mile, which is basically all up hill the whole mile. My other laps were actually all pretty reasonable, even though I didn’t really know where I was running, and what my distances were, and the course included several hill climbs.

Lap      Time    Distance    Pace       Ascent    Descent   HR Avg

------- ----------  ---------- --------  --------  ------

Lap 1 -   10:00  1.0 miles  10:00/mile            -100 ft   146

Lap 2 -   10:56  1.3 miles   8:24/mile  +100 ft   - 35 ft   150

Lap 3 -    9:03  1.1 miles   8:13/mile  + 35 ft   - 60 ft   149

Lap 4 -   10:02  1.1 miles   9:07/mile            - 80 ft   149

Lap 5 -   10:01  1.1 miles   9:06/mile                      149

Lap 6 -   10:02  1.0 miles  10:02/mile  +140 ft             147

Lap 7 -    4:33  0.6 miles   7:35/mile  + 70 ft   - 70 ft   146

------- ----------  ---------- --------  --------  ------

1:04:40  7.2 miles   8:59/mile   345 ft    345 ft   148

All in all, a good run.

Workout:

  • Type: Run
  • Date: 09/03/2008
  • Total Time: 1:04:40.00
  • Average Heart rate: 148
  • Max Heart rate: 162
  • Distance: 7.2 miles
  • Average Pace: 8:58.92/mile
  • Ascent: 345 ft
  • Descent: 345 ft

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Me in 2002 - 200lbsThis is my fitness blog. Some people who knew me a long time ago may wonder, what the heck I'm doing writing a blog about fitness. Many of them wouldn't imagine that I'd have anything to do with fitness. You see, up until age 34, I treated my body very poorly. I sat around at home, at work, at play. I ate junk food and lots of it. And the result was what you'd expect 5'4" and 200 lbs with 36% body fat. (more...)

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