I was kind of disappointed with yesterdays run, so today following the guidelines at runningforfitness.org/calc/... for my RHRT and MHRT.
I undertook a long slow recovery run, aiming keeping my HRT below 139bpm which I mostly did apart from the last 15 minutes or so where it started creeping up to around 145bmp, I guess I was gettting tired! Anyway I ran in total (excluding warm up/cool down) for a massive 1h07m42s and covered 10.69km!
Very Pleased stretched and now off to ice my achilles tendon.
Happy Running All!
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I did run yesterday but todays run was what they call a recovery run (a new concept to me, so I may have it wrong), the idea is not to worry about speed but to concentrate on keep your heart rate below a certain threshold and because your heart is not working as hard it means that blood flow is increased to the muscles and ligaments within your legs. My ankle feels remarkable good, much better post recovery run to pre-run to the point where I am amazed and am thinking maybe it's just a coincidence.
I think my speed is quite slow then again I am reasonably tall at 6'3'' so I'm assuming longer legged people should in theory run faster than someone with shorter legs for example as they have a longer stride?
Well that is a good 10" taller than me - not sure that fully explains how you can run almost exactly twice as fast as me though!
I thought a 'recovery run' was as you describe - but still thought it was recommended to have non-running days between runs, unless you've been running for a year or so. Glad your ankle's doing well anyway - looks as though it was a good type of run for it.
I think my secret is..... that for nearly a decade I was carrying around the equivalent in weight of three 8 year old children everywhere I went and now that they are gone I'm able to fly! lol
Ah do you mean why such an odd number? The reason was that it was just a very slow recovery run, I had no targets at all apart from keeping my Heart Rate down in the 70% zone which for me is less that 139 bpm, I've never done this before and did not know how hard or slow I would need to run until I started.
It turned out to be much easier than I thought, at a 139 bpm I was not out of breath even in the slightest and my legs were not tired but that's the whole idea of a recovery run.
At 45 minutes I'm thinking this is quite easy and thinking I perhaps I could break my personal record and run for an hour, I get to 1 hour and to be honest I am at that point starting to feel it a little more, my heart rate had also increased to 145bpm but I'm then thinking, 10k I wonder if 10k is within my sights, the problem is that I've got my treadmill setup in old money and I can't remember at this point what 10k is in miles, I know it's somewhere between 6 and 7 miles, so I push on and goto 6.6 miles (I think it was) and at that point the rational part of my brain kicks in and I realise I'm probably pushing a little as the whole idea is to "Recover" and so I stop, hoping that I've broke through 10k, which I did!
That bit about comparing your (past) excess weight to three 8-year-olds is really graphic... you've come so far! No wonder you fly. What an inspiration to us all.
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stretched and now off to ice my achilles tendon. 
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then again I am reasonably tall at 6'3'' so I'm assuming longer legged people should in theory run faster than someone with shorter legs for example as they have a longer stride?
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