5/12 Run and Workout

Weather.com said 47 and dark-cloudy. Got outside and it was sunny and gorgeous. Probably could have gotten away with SS Shirt. 50 and light-cloudy when I got back in.

Unquestionably a new PR. Last best was 10:40ish. Now... was it a fluke, or is the 6 week training block drop. :) We can hope. :)

6.11 miles in 1:02:40 (10:15/mile) @ 140 bpm (total time adjusted)
Garmin lost it's mind about .25 miles in, and completely rebooted itself or something, and completely hosed the first mile split. After some work exporting the session and rummaging around in the tcx file, I think the missing section was about .23 miles long, and took just over 2 minutes.
9:30 @ ??? <- SWAG
9:56 @ 140
9:53 @ 142
10:37 @ 142
10:35 @ 142
10:01 @ 143
0.11 - 9:50 @ 144

Walked back in with Bruce and chatted about his very unpleasant track workout.

Ordered new shoes this weekend from Kelly's Running Warehouse. Got 2 pairs since the fine folks at Mizuno are discontinuing my shoes (Wave Alchemy 8s). This is the second time (last time it was my ASICS Foundation 7s). I'll try out the new version in 6 months or so. :)

Interesting review in Running Times about the shoe. And interestingly one of the similar shoes was the ASICS Foundation 7s that I liked and got discontinued.

Now that I've run in the shoe, the comment about heavier runners needing a beefier forefoot actually makes sense. I'm fining that it helps me pay more attention to form and midfoot strike.

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Wanted to watch the Biggest Loser finale, since they might interview Laura from Absolut(ly) Fit since she paced Dane through the Country Music Marathon. Her post here.

Improvised a workout and did three sets of:

40 pushups (first set was all regular, the rest was mixed regular and knees)
50 Bodyweight Squats
50 Situps
10 Front StepUps each leg (used the 18" mantle of the fireplace)
10 Side StepUps each leg (used the 18" mantle of the fireplace)