8 minute 25 second mile pace for 5.5 miles. Way ahead of schedule.
I can already do my half marathon. You can do in one day the distance you can run in 3 consecutive days.
Now it's just shaving time off and upping distance.
Got an Apple iwatch 4 last week cause my Fitbit, bit the dust.
Says my heart rate peaks at 203 bpm when I'm running. When I run o go the fastest at the end. I keep upping the speed the longer I run. At the end I'm running 9.5 mph. That's how I train. When I'm effing equated and I want to collapse I put the pedal down. It works. It's painful though. Thats why I said it gets masochistic. When I've been running I'll go up to 12mph for last minute.
Low 200 was my peak when I did my VO2 Max test about 12 years ago. I have not changed. The fitness trainer told me after my test I am a freak of nature. She designed a custom running schedule for me, but I didn't like it. I keep my heart rate in the extreme zone the whole time I run. Keeping at say 160 bpm is too easy and it feels like I'm not even exerting myself.
From my VO2 Max test my lungs can keep my body supplied with enough oxygen until about 186 BPM and then I start going anaerobic, which is when you burn glucose in the absence of oxygen and build up lactic acid in your muscles. You are only supposed to be able to do that for a little bit, but I can go for a long time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_glycolysisI feel health-wise and athletic wise like I did when I was in my 20s. A colleague who studied kinesiology and who interned with the Olympic cyclic team in the 80s told me that my heart rate characteristics are usually only found in really elite endurance athletes. He told me when I hit 38 years of age or so I'd hit a wall. Still haven't.
When I've been running for awhile my resting heart rate goes down to low 50 upper 40s. A nurse freaked out one time on me.
I used to effing hate running when I was younger too. I didn't start running until my late 20s. Now I love it.