Running Journal, Sunday, 2007-01-28

Running Journal, Sunday, 2007-01-28
Resting heart rate: 49 bpm (60-second test, early morning) Lowest ever :)
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2)) 23.024
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR): 1885 calories
Weather: Partly sunny, 3 m/s wind
Temp: 14 C (57.2 F)
Time: 14:20 - 16:30
Terrain: flat
Comments: I ran at the American River College stadium track today doing speedwork. Earlier today I volunteered for Adopt-A-Highway and walked about one mile with a lot of effort. Combined with the 55 minutes of running from last night my legs felt sore when I got out to do speedwork for the first time. The idea behind speedwork is to get a feel for the pace which I'll be running between walk breaks during the marathon. My pace turns out to be 10:15, or 2:36/lap on a 400-meter track (1,600 meters being a close enough approximation of one mile). It took me a while to read through the section of Galloway's book on speedwork and get a feel for what he meant. Then I did the math and figured out how fast I needed to run. As I warmed up I read through the stadium track's legend explaining what the various colors and shapes painted on the track meant. For example, the 800 m starts are represented by a green line. The 1,600 m relay zones are represented by blue triangles, and so forth. I am slowly learning these markings.
Running Time: 130 minutes (2:10)
Goal Time: n/a
Distance (running): 4.83 km (3.00 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 110.30 km (68.38 mi)
Weight (after run): 78.8 kg (173.754 lbs), 17% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: Lower back feeling a bit sore.
Foods eaten today: banana, cranberry and orange cake, grapes, tangerine, orange juice, cottage cheese, bean and cheese burrito, south-western salad, veggie brat, soy milk