I ran down to Splash Point today, circumstances having prevented me from having a long Sunday run. I am testing some marathon training schedules for the Garmin Forerunner for Runners World. There are schedules for heart rate or pace-based training, and as I've never made much use of heart rate information, I went for the pace-based ones. I'm not actually training for a marathon at the moment, but I don't think that matters. The schedules that would be most interesting to test are the interval runs and hill sessions, but I just did a steady pace five mile run today. Apart from some interval training, I haven't really used the pace feature of the Forerunner, except at the end of a run, so it was disconcerting to be beeped at. I was beeped at a lot, though I suppose over the whole distance it evens out. I was told to slow down more often than I was told to speed up.
Time: 43:43
Distance: 5.00
Pace: 8.45 (best 6.48)
Average heart rate: 149
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