Happy Sunday before holiday Monday! My favorite kind of Sunday 🙂
I started the day with a 10-mile run, easy. Had to make sure my heart rate stayed between 139 and 158 bpm. Ten miles because that’s the weekend mileage I should’ve done if I had been following the Half Marathon: Own It plan in Train Like a Mother; 139-158 bpm because that’s Zone 2, according to my new Iron Fit book book – the endurance-bulding one where all workouts should take place.
Done and done. I feel like a fifth-grader who did her Monday homework on Friday evening: nerdy — but happy. And yes, it’s nice to be back on a scheduleOn most Sunday mornings, I run at Shoreline Park in Mountain View, over through Stevens Creek Trail in Sunnyvale. That was today’s route, too. Though, if you ask my RunKeeper, I was yet again flying all over the place and walking on water:Luckily for this run nerd, the Garmin was on at the same time, spewing a wealth of live data: pace, time, elevation, heart rate, stock prices, and a bunch of other stuff. I exported the file to RunKeeper later, so I can make a true comparison: That’s more like it. (Though my watch, Garmin Connect and Strava read the data as 10 miles exactly.)
Clearly my phone has a problem – other GPS apps, including Runtastic, Strava and iSmoothRun, get bad readings as well.
Splits for today’s run (schedule said to “finish strong”):Onto more important things:Great recovery food suggestion: beer. Great pre-run breakfast. I call it an SBJBPB sandwich: sunflower butter – jelly – banana on pita bread. Eat at least two hours before your run. Yum!
What’s your favorite pre-run food/ drink? Post run?
My favourite pre-run is eithr a bagel/cream cheese or porridge with nuts and raisins. Post run? Seriously anything! BTW….English muffins? Not English.
Also, thank you for the comment on our Youtube video. Much appreciated!!
What?!? Not English? Does that mean that French Toast isn’t French??? Hehe, j/k. (Not to mention, they’re not really muffins, either!! Talk about total deception.)
I like to eat half an English muffin with peanut butter and sliced bananas before a run. After, I like chocolate milk….and for dinner…pizza and beer, for sure. Oh, and congrats on walking on water. So impressive! Way to over-achieve 🙂
Hehe – thanks! Not easy, that walking on water thing! (Love English muffins, but they’re just so small… :))