Today my training plan called for a steady state running pace. This is something I have never done before. I have done specific run/walk intervals but never tried to run a specific pace over an amount of time. The whole concept was foreign to me.
So like any good engineer, I did some math and figured that a 1:00/1:30 pace would work for the warm up and a 1:30/1:00 pace would work for the main set.
Well that didn't quite work out the way I had hoped. I ended up being faster than I was supposed to be using those numbers.
Interestingly, I read that when you run it should be at a "conversational pace", or a pace in which you could have a conversation with someone. I have no idea what that is, every run I have ever done I am out of breath and can't talk to anyone. Today was a different story, my heart rate was lower and could have definitely talked to someone today. So maybe there is something to this steady pace thing.
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