Personal best?
May 17, 2009
My husband and I woke up very early this morning to run a 5K. Although this is the fourth race that I’ve run since I’ve started running (December 2008), this race was different. This was the first race that I’ve actually PACED myself. I ran a race last weekend, and finished FAR too quickly. I realize that in order to make any type of distance improvement, I need to learn to pace myself. I shouldn’t get to the end of the race and feel like I’m dying…. So today, I used my Polar F6 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Watch (Green Tea)
to pace myself. I was determined to run 11 minute miles, which is a little bit slower than my normal race pace. (I absolutely ADORE my HRM, by the way! It’s quite possibly the best money I’ve ever spent. It definitely helps me to determine my exercise level in accordance with my BMR.) As I was running, I hit the 1 mile mark at EXACTLY 11 minutes. WOW! So I kept at that pace, and was SO excited to hit mile 2 at 22 minutes!! As I was running toward the finish line, I was skipping through songs on my Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB Silver (2nd Generation)
and “Remember the Name” by Fort Minor came up. I LOVE that song. It pushes me to run harder and finish stronger. (Shop on iTunes
) I finished the race just under 34:00, and while that is MUCH slower than my previous finishes, it was a personal best for me.
Tagged as:
exercise,
health,
motivation
