{"id":296,"date":"2018-07-31T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=296"},"modified":"2018-07-31T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:57:24","slug":"second-week-of-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2018\/07\/second-week-of-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Second week of training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miles for the week: ~17 (3.4\/4.1\/3.5\/~6)
\nAverage resting heart rate per Fitbit: 60 (gave blood)
\nWeight: 116
\nCityStrides coverage of Northampton<\/a>: 36%
\nLong run: ~6 miles; avg HR 135; time 1:18; dead phone so don’t know splits<\/p>\n

Pretty good heart rate for having giving blood on Tuesday, which usually knocks it out of me for a while. Even my Thursday run wasn’t too bad (average HR 150). Since my phone was dead I didn’t bother to think about new streets, but I added a garden: Frankie’s Garden<\/a>, a small bed next to the courthouse. And I took a relaxed walk through the community gardens, got buzzed by a mockingbird (which I was able to identify for a gardener who said she saw them frequently but couldn’t describe them well enough for her birder friends to recognize), and got a glimpse of a house wren after hearing it sing. My mnemonic for them is Neddie Seagoon<\/a> going “whatwhatwhatwhatwhat?”, but having just been listening to this Owl City song, that’s what I thought of (hear the real bird at 00:10):<\/p>\n