Decent Bike and Run (then Slow Bike)
>> Saturday, July 26, 2025
Thursday I got out for a decent ride. It was longer (36+ miles) and I did the first 20 miles at tempo pace. I went farther south than I ever had before on Hwy 13, and then turned around and finished my hard tempo miles before having to make that nasty climb up by I-494:
Splits #1-4 were tempo, then the rest was just adding in miles.
3, 2, 4, turn-around, 1, and 5 - that's 3.18 miles of my run.
HARD efforts = h
EASY efforts = e
Parentheses show the pace of a split.
Garmin takes an auto lap after 1/2 mile, so longer efforts show 2 splits.
3:00 h: 2:55, 0:05 = 0.51 miles
1:30 e: 0.19 (8:04)
2:00 h: 0.33 (6:01)
1:00 e: 0.13 (7:54)
4:00 h: 2:55, 1:05 = 0.69 miles
2:00 e: 0.25 (8:03)
1:00 h: 0.18 (5:33)
0:30 e: 0.06 (8:23)
5:00 h: 2:59, 2:01 = 0.84 miles
Last year, 3 out of 4 of my "rest intervals" were 0.01 miles longer (faster), and 3 out of my 5 "hard intervals" were faster as well (2 being the same distance, 2 being 0.01 miles longer last year, and 1 being 0.02 miles longer last year), so that was 3.24 miles last year in the same time as 3.18 miles this time. Maybe it was the heat, or maybe it was my less-than-ideal training all June because I was up north, then camping, then in Hawaii, and then in Milwaukee. I started the year with the same fitness level as last year, but it fell off this summer.
So today I just took it easy on the bike. Just "went for a ride" down the Greenway and back. I actually biked slowly along side my wife when I found her wrapping up a HOT and STEAMY 16 mile run, and I just kept my Garmin going - I had no splits I was trying to hit. I ended up biking 28 miles with a 18.4 mph average:
To the west and back, with 5-mile splits showing.