Change of Pace

2/18	18 miles	1st 14: 8:53 pace, last 4: 7:08 pace
2/19	13 miles	8:36 pace, avg. HR 154, upper 30's
2/20 run #1	9 miles	8:44 pace, avg. HR 147
run #2	6 miles	8:55 pace, avg. HR 147, 30 degrees
2/21	12.5 miles	8:44 pace, avg. HR 153, mid 20's, sunny
2/22	Rest day
2/23	9 miles	4 mile race turned into a fun run (snow) 26:28 unofficial
2/24	6.3 miles	9:19 pace, avg. HR 141, very slushy/icy

It's nice to look at the data and see that both the average pace numbers and the heart rates are slowly coming down. I'm starting to add in at least one faster paced workout a week and see if I can't get to where the speed comes a little more naturally. I was actually relieved when the team points race was canceled for snow, since I just didn't feel like I had a fast race in me that day, but it worked into the schedule well as a brisk tempo workout. The next race is a 15 in a week and a half and it comes at the end of an easy training week, so who knows, maybe I'll be able to wrangle up a few fast twitch fibers for that one.

I'm leaning more and more towards doing Boston, mostly because I want to see the trials, but also because I'm curious how I'll do on that course with a good training cycle under my belt. It's outrageously expensive to stay in Boston, so the plan now is to take Greyhound up there and slum it out on the end of the T line in Braintree. Do people really pay $600 a night to stay right in Boston? Way to make a girl feel impoverished.