'Recovery' Run

What better way to spend an evening following a Run-As-Hard-As-You-Can Half Marathon,
and two Days on your feet for 12½ hours each at work..
than a nice gentle recovery run

Good Plan Leon - like it - a lot!

So - dutifully took running kit to work with me......
and ran home


Forgot to put my Garmin on (probably a good thing), and had decided to run to a Heart Rate instead.
Plan was - keep the HR below 160, and allow myself to reach the heady heights of 165 on the hills!

The first 7 miles were fine (apart from a persistent stitch which I seem to have had since Sunday)

Legs were tired, but that was to be expected

First Hill was good too - in fact had found a pretty comfortable running rhythm by this time.
Then there was the descent to 10 miles and the second hill

Hmmmmmmmm

I had never before understood what people had meant by "I just couldn't get my heart rate up" - It's something that some of the Elite Start type Guys on Forum can be seen saying sometimes on their race reports...

Well - it happened to me today!

Heart and lungs were willing - legs were unable to deliver!!!!!

So - the 2nd hill and last 3 miles were really painful!!!!
But I kept on going - because running on tired legs is something that I need to get used to

'cos it'll happen in the Marathon!!!!.

So...
Finished
Stretched
20 mins in icy cold bath
then warm bath
then food

Achieved what I set out to do - long run on tired legs - slow Base Training type pace with a HR reasonably low (for me!)

Right - the numbers

Distance: 13.2miles
Time: 1:56:24
Pace: 8:49 min/mile
AvHR: 160