Running

This Saturday (4/21) I met with my training group at the unholy hour of 7:30 am to work on running and establish my maximum heart rate.

A note about max heart rates (mhr). Apparently the whole 220-your age=MHR is not very accurate. More recent research has established that a person's MHR is thier own unique number that is genetically established, and not a sign of your cardio fitness. So we were doing all these tests with our handy heart rate monitors (hrm). Accroding to the old method my max should be 194. Now after doing five separate sub-max tests (meaning an estimate of the max but not actually reaching the max) my estimated MHR is 194. So far I'm the only one who's new max is close to the old estimate. Our two coaches have MHRs of 215bpm and 185 bpm. And apparently these max numbers change depending on what sport you're doing. So while my max for running is 194, my bike max may only be 184, and swim may be 174. These are all estimates, though.

Back to running. We did a timed one mile run. My old fastest mile was 12 minutes, as of Saturday, I've shaved off a minute. I now run a mile in 11:04...we'll just say that's an 11 minute mile. It's no olympics speed, but an improvement on before, for sure.

This morning I attempted to do my swim workout, but Stacey pool was still closed, so I'm going to try to go to another pool tonight. I'm a little rattled right now beause I got into yet another fender-bender this morning, scraped up the right side of my car and took out my passanger side mirror. And it was my fault. The other guy barely had a scratch. This is 3 accedents in less than a year (but the only one that's my fault). I want to move back to a place with real public transportation and a job that requires less travel.