Planning of my week looked good on Monday. With a first run on tuesday, I was set to run on Thursday, then possibly on Friday and on Sunday but now I have a coworker who's throwing a happy hour this afternoon and since most everyone from our department will be there and I wanted to attend, and beer will be drank, I knew I wouldn't run this evening as I'm used to. So with that in mind, I set my alarm clock 10 minutes early and I went out for a before breakfast run this morning. Knew I didn't have time for an easy and long run, I decided I'd gun for a personal best 5k and I sure did. Dropped down my time from 24:09 to 22:55 or a 7:22 pace. According to Strava, my previous best on any one mile was 7:34 so I crushed this personal one mile best on the average over 5 km. On the same note, again according to Strava, my personal best on any 1 km was 4:39 and again, I beat that on my average pace over 5k. No need to say that I am VERY happy about that.
Here's a link to the Garmin activity.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/340842251
Bummer, Strava is not giving me credit for a 5k PR, oh well...
What I'm finding odd is I can't seem to really push my heart rate up much more than 160-something. I was pushing myself kinda hard out there this morning and had my heart in my throat, sorta, yet HR never went much higher than 161 or so. I do have a resting HR at about 50 or so, so maybe my heart is just like that. Any thoughts?