Test Run Bravo
I intended to go out yesterday and try another two miles on the track. After I got home from my temporary gig yesterday, though, I was famished, so I munched a bowl of Pad Thai (yum). Unfortunately, that was about an hour before sunset. At the half hour mark, I still felt bloaty.
Today, I set a goal of knocking a 90 seconds off my time, while maintaining a heart rate down somewhere under my theoretical maximum heart rate. Sunday’s run had me walking in laps 5, 6, and 7, so I really wanted to run the whole thing without walking at all today.
Test Run Bravo
- Distance: 2.00 miles (3.22 km)
- Time: 21:28 (10:43 / mile – 5.59 mph avg)
- Heart Rate Max: 205 bpm (111% target zone)
- Heart Rate Avg: 191 bpm (104% target zone)
- APFT Score for run: 26 (required to pass: 60 – 17:42)
- Goal for August: 50 – 18:48 (2:40 faster)
I ran the full two miles non-stop, except for six seconds on lap two to retie my shoe. I gave a little push toward the end, because I was dying of thirst and wanted some of my water bottle. I still had exactly the same ridiculously high heart rate this time around, but I felt better after I finished. Sooner or later, this two mile trudge will get easier. It’ll come as the weight falls off.
- Apollo’s Statistics
- Height: 70 inches (1.778 m)
- Weight: 193.5 lb (87.77 kg) [-2.5 lb]
- BMI: 27.76 (-0.36) [Overweight]
- Goal Weight: 165 lb (74.84 kg) [23.67 BMI]
More than the weight loss thing, I’m shooting for a vastly improved fitness level. But, we have to start fat and slow before we become lean and mean, right?
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