Thursday, 27 November 2008

Day 72 5km - slow progress

Was in Tirana all day and got back at 5pm. had a meeting at 6.30pm, so decided I could squeeze in a quick 5km, but then found we had no water - so a shower afterwards was out of the question.

Just when I thought a run was off - the water came back on, and so I headed out.
The Garmin is picking reception up really quickly which is BIG bonus and so I headed off.

At first I thought I was running really quick. the humming or numbness or heaviness in my feet was gone which was good and so I glanced at my watch. It told me 9.30 pace, which was a lot slower than I felt I was running.

I had a tight feeling across my chest, and knowing that the last run had been 98% in Zone 5, I decided to take it easy. Half way round I looked at my watch and saw the heart rate was 168, so that was good. Still a bit tight across the chest, but I put it down to tiredness and wrong diet/lack of fluids. I looked at the watch and my heart rate was up to 178...a few seconds later it was up to 190...then 200...then 210. Something was seriously wrong, so I stopped running and checked my stats...I then realised I was on the wrong page of the Garmin and I was reading my calorie burnt count.
DOH!
Off running again, and back at 9.30 pace.
Didn't push myself, didn't feel tried...just always a little out of breath.

A slow finish in 29 mins 18 seconds.
Probably one of my slowest 5km...but still any 5km is good, surely!

the other strange thing is my weigh in.
Usually Wednesday is a non-running day, and yesterday was no different.
Usually I am teaching at church in the evening and come home famished.
No different yesterday.
usually my weigh in, gives a result of the highest reading of the week.
Not so yesterday.
I weighed in yesterday at 79.9kg.
That has broken the 80kg barrier.

I am a little worried as I have not been under 80kg all week, and I stuffed my face last night, and still the reading was low. I think it may be a false weight, so anything around the 80kg next Wednesday will be my target.

Still, it is encouraging!

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