Day 42, Week 6, Medium Run [7M]

Sucky run. Heart rate wacky. Had plan of 1 mile run/.25 mile walk.  I did upped pace. Maybe that was a mistake.  Next time I'll do .75mile/.25mile run/walk and keep at slow pace.  But, then we'll see also what the electrophysiology cardiologist says on Tuesday.  No running before then except for 1 mile after my long brick on Monday.  I'll try running the whole mile.  Nothing to lose.

Day 41, Week 6, Short Brick [45min/1.75M]

On the training still with 30 seconds each leg isolated every 5 minutes.  I'm getting better I think.  I think concentrating back up and forward on pedals on road rides is being beneficial.  Run spiked heart rate at .73 miles and came back down within a 1/4 mile.  I will come down some but not all the way if I'm walking up hill.  It spike again near the end.  Average 12 minute mile.

Day 40, Week 6, Short Run/Short Core [4M/7min]

Did 1 mile run (not jog), 1/4 mile walk.  Heart behaved and didn't spike, so that was good.  Each mile it did rise.  The first mile it was in 140s, second mile lower 160s, third mile upper 160s.  The overall pace was 10:06 which might just cut it for the half.  But, I don't know if I can sustain the 8-9 minute pace for each 1 mile running legs over the course of 13 miles, just from an exhaustion point of view, but also if my heart rate will keep going up every leg.  Next week's 7 mile run will be a good test of that.

Day 39, Week 6, Short Brick [45/15min]

Good brick.  Found a great route: Hanover Rd --> Old Hanover Rd at Woodensburg --> Piney Grove Rd --> Longnecker Rd --> Butler Rd --> Central Ave --> back home.  HR on run spiked, but all in all a great work out.  Especially taking of from the mechanic.  Good to have alternate wheels for transportation.

Day 38, Week 6, Swim Drills [1900y]

Set my rest periods to 45sec first time through, then 30sec second time through since doing half on the second round.  I think it's less than what I have been doing, but now, it methodical.  I wasn't able to get through the second Tarzan.  That's okay, I'll do better next time.

Day 37, Week 6, Long Core [28min]

Did it in two sets of 2 before breakfast and late afternoon.

Day 36, Week 5, Long Run [11.25M]

Lots of wacky heart rate, so walked a lot.  On the one hand, it doesn't bode well for the half.  On the other, it felt pretty good just being out exercising and accomplishing my distance goal regardless of the time.  I'm going to try finding a running/walking ratio that works.  It allows surprises me that level of effort doesn't seem to be the cause of the heart rate jumps. If it starts, it seems to start around 3 miles.  Today at mile 9.25 after all the wackiness that was going on, I upped my pace for 1.75 miles as planned and it was on an up hill and my heart rate didn't jump up. Today, if my heart rate jumped, I started walking for .25 miles and if my rate wasn't down to 100, then I went another .25 and started running again.  The original plan was 2 miles running/.25 walking and I stuck to that accept for walking when my heart rate spiked.

	0.00	0:00:00
J	2.00	0:21:03	2.00	0:21:03
W	2.25	0:25:23			0.25	0:04:20
J	3.38	0:37:09	1.13	0:11:46
W	3.80	0:45:48			0.42	0:08:39				6.8	1:11:11	0:10:25
J	4.25	0:49:34	0.45	0:03:46						2.67	0:47:17	0:17:43
W	4.50	0:53:50			0.25	0:04:16				1.8	0:15:47	0:09:01
J	5.33	1:02:25	0.83	0:08:35
W	5.83	1:11:25			0.50	0:09:00
J	6.50	1:18:09	0.67	0:06:44
W	6.75	1:22:25			0.25	0:04:16
J	7.94	1:35:24	1.19	0:12:59
W	8.44	1:43:54			0.50	0:08:30
J	8.75	1:47:34	0.31	0:03:40
W	9.00	1:51:27			0.25	0:03:53
J	9.25	1:54:05	0.25	0:02:38
R	11.00	2:09:52					1.75	0:15:47
W	11.25	2:14:15			0.25	0:04:23
			6.83	1:11:11	2.67	0:47:17	1.75	0:15:47

Jog/Ran 8.58M/1:26:58, Walked 2.67M/0:47:17
Walked 23.7% by distance, 35% by time.
2M run/.25M walk didn't work.   Could do 2.25R/.75W.  Or, 1.5R/.5W.  2R/.667W. I like 1.75M/.5W (22%)