I got a replacement HR monitor strap yesterday, so I was able to run with the HR monitor for the first time in about a year and a half. The results were about what I expected to see, although not what I wanted to see. My HR was between 5-10 bpm higher at a given pace than it used to be when I was in better shape. My best guess is that this coorelates with about a 30-40 second per mile reduction in pace compared to before. It looked like I was hitting about 131 on the HR monitor at about 8:10 mile pace. 2 years ago, I would have been about 7:30-7:40 mile pace with a HR of 131. Total time for the run was 1:11:48 for 9 miles.
Total score thusfar for week two of the competition that Kimia and I are having: Kimia - 7, Jeff - 7 (I was down 7 to 4 at the beginning of the day).
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