{"id":243,"date":"2018-06-24T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=243"},"modified":"2018-06-24T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T00:37:07","slug":"pre-training-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2018\/06\/pre-training-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-training week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miles for the week: 11 (2\/2\/1\/6)
\nResting heart rate: 57
\nWeight: 116
\nLong run: 6 miles LSD; average HR 134; time 1:16:35 (12:37 avg); splits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mile<\/td>\nTime<\/td>\nElevation (feet)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n13:12<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n13:04<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n11:56<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n13:10<\/td>\n66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n12:04<\/td>\n-138<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n12:11<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Decent long run, overcast and not too hot. Way better than the same run last week when I got overheated and almost bonked (I was feeling bad and indeed my HR was spiking as high as 180). I’ve been curious to compare to my previous marathon experiences; pre-training week 1<\/a> from 2004, when I was a few pounds higher, my pace was almost a minute faster. But from my description, I was running a 2\/2 cadence (two breaths in, two out), whereas now my long slow distance cadence is 3\/3. (And I can do 3\/2 also, so I have three gears now aside from sprinting!) So I was running harder back then and maybe it’s apples to oranges. I’ve been using the great free app RunKeeper<\/a> for training since the 2015 marathon, so I can compare to that too, and I’m significantly slower than then. Hmm! Is it age? I’ll see how it goes, but I’m really glad I’m doing a light training schedule.<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing this route as my long run for the next 3 weeks—it’s my usual 5+ miles with a little extra tacked on—and I love it. When we lived in Pennsylvania I thought I had the best 5 mile route ever, with pastures and woods and hills; although there are no actual cows on this course, and no deep woods, there’s Paradise Pond and the Mill River, the dog park, fields with views, and seven gardens I get to visit: the herb garden<\/a> at Hungry Ghost, Capen Garden<\/a>, walk break in the Lyman Greenhouse<\/a> when I’m not too early (it opens at 8:30am), main Smith Botanic Garden (which actually includes several, like the rock garden<\/a>, systematics<\/a>, perennial border, etc.), Happy Chase Garden<\/a>, the Northampton Community Garden<\/a>, and the gorgeous small garden in front of the Roundhouse. Plus beautiful yards and architecture!<\/p>\n

Now that I have so many many cultivated flowers to look at, the wildflowers don’t register as much, but I’ll try to still pay attention because I like reading that in the previous blog posts. Garden-wise there were still some irises, but astilbes, roses, and clematis were in full bloom. I saw goldfinches swooping over the little pond next to the greenhouse, and an agitated mockingbird squawking like a grackle or a titmouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miles for the week: 11 (2\/2\/1\/6) Resting heart rate: 57 Weight: 116 Long run: 6 miles LSD; average HR 134; time 1:16:35 (12:37 avg); splits: Mile Time Elevation (feet) 1 13:12 59 2 13:04 20 3 11:56 -3 4 13:10 66 5 12:04 -138 6 12:11 0 Decent long run, overcast and not too hot. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}