3.1 miles, 34:07 = 11:00/mile
Avg heart rate = 182
I had a decent run tonight but I think it would have been tough to get myself going much faster, so I think I’m going to have to amend the prediction I made over on Jon’s blog, in which I estimated a finish time in this weekend’s Lunar Rendezvous Run of 32-33 minutes. Yep, let’s up that prediction to the 33-34 minute range.
Sigh…as I again lament the fact that six months ago I ran a marathon, and now I have lost all that great conditioning. Waaaaah!
Anyway, Jon saw in my previous entry that this will be my 4th year at this race, and looked up my previous times:
2004 – 32:44
2003 – 30:50
2002 – 34:36
The 2002 race was only 6 months after I’d started running, and was the first race I ever ran in Houston. All I wrote in my training log is: “LUNAR RENDEZVOUS 5K (hot, hot, hot).”
I then went and looked up the entry in my training log for 2003, since the 30:50 time surprised me. I do not run well in the heat AT ALL, and I wasn’t training for anything in particular in spring 2003 that would have helped me out. Turns out I must have just had a good day, as I wrote: “LUNAR RENDEZVOUS 5K (Really hot, but I did a 9:15 first mile!!)” Obviously I couldn’t keep up the 9:15 pace. 😉
Last year, I wrote: “LUNAR RENDEZVOUS 5K. Freaking hot. 9:50, 10:30, then 12+ final 1.1 miles.” Probably more like what will happen on Saturday, unless the weather stays cool (and cool is relative, but oh well).
Anyway. Just some observations.
