Heart rate

So to entertain myself, I am going to run with my heart rate monitor and keep track of variables such as temp/wind/humidity and my average heart rate and pace. Tuesday I did 6 miles on a relatively flat course. I was not wearing my heart rate moniter but I guarentee you my heart was way higher than it should have been. My pace was 8:24/mile. It was about 95 degrees with no wind. Wednesday I ran 30 min with the monitor and tried to keep my heart rate below 150bpm. At the end of the run the average pace was 8:48 and average HR was 149. It was 95 degrees or so and quite windy. I will wear the monitor on Thurs PM and see what happens when I run in a group. I expect the conditions to be similar.

Today one of the buttons on the stupid wrist band broke and although I can still make it work, it pushes me closer to buying a Garmin with integrated HR monitor.

All in all, I'm feeling pretty good on the runs and am determined to try not to fall into the same rut I was in last year. Not sure if I can but I'll try.

Have a couple of conflicts with the long runs this summer but I think I will sacrifice one long run and one morning of a horse show. Will talk to Karen about it so she has no reason to get bent out of shape.