The Pre-Test

Yikes, talk about a chink in the armor! But first, a disclaimer. I have run for a long time, train most miles comfortably between 7:30 and 8:30, I ran 10 easy last week at 8 min pace. Almost everything I do is 160 bpm.

Onto the yikes part. This morning, I wanted to see how fast I could run 6 miles with a cap of 140 bpm. Get this, 1:08:05. Yep, 11:20 pace. Is that unreal? But this thing is about getting better, so at least I found something really out of whack to work on.

At the very least, this crap pace at 140 highlights a huge gap in me. This was exactly what I was looking for. So from now on, Thursday will be a 140 bpm 6 mile run.