Fartlek Run - 10 miles w/8 x 25 sec. @ 3K pace. Average pace: 9:01.
Weather: 50°F, 85% humidity, wind 4 WNW, cloudy.
I got up at about 5:15 this morning and cooked breakfast for my husband, who was leaving to spend the next two days at Scout Camp. Then I decided to program my workout into my Garmin. But when I went to do that, the Garmin wouldn't synch with the computer. I had to reset it, which I've had to do a couple of times recently, and which worries me about the health of my Garmin. Then when I got it turned on it gave me a low battery warning, which is crazy because I charge it after every run. So I programmed the workout and then dawdled for a while in order to let it charge. When I was just under 7.5 miles into my run, I got the low battery warning again and I worried that it would poop out on me before I finished my run, but it didn't.
In case anyone is interested in how I programmed this workout into the Garmin, the first step was 2 miles, and then I did 8 repeats of 25 sec. and then go until I hit the lap button. So when I was running, after the first fast bit, which the watch prompted me to start after the first 2 miles, I hit the lap button whenever my total distance showed a full mile (at 3.00, 4.00, etc.) and started running fast. Then the watch would beep and tell me when the 25 seconds was up and I would slow back down.
It turns out I went faster than I was shooting for. I have a bad tendency to do that. But especially on a short interval like 25 sec., the Garmin doesn't have much of a chance to show an accurate pace during the run. I think it gives a relatively accurate average pace after the fact, but not in real time. In any case, the pace for my fast bits today were 6:45, 6:08, 6:28, 6:37, 6:05, 6:26, 6:25, 5:58. I meant to hit around 7:00. Oh well. I guess since I was able to do the last one the fastest of all, I wasn't going faster than I could handle. I'll see how dead I feel tomorrow, I guess. | 