runnin with a friend

Snow?!!! I can not imagine. The forcast for my long run tomorrow at 6:30am is 72F with 79% humidity... in other words, yucky! Snow is probably yucky too... but I wouldn't know because it only snows on average once a year here and everyone stays inside like we're in a blizard.

Maybe I should give the HR monitor another try. I hated it because it always showed my HR was too high even though I felt like I was going easy... If I slowed down to what I was supposed to, I'd have been too slow to have any fun. I think I might have a high hr and it makes me nervous.

With heart rate training, have you went out and actually found your max heart rate? Those ballpark figures that you read about are just that, a guess. Find a hill ( might be hard in Texas) and run up it a couple of times at a fair to medium pace and then run it as fast as you can. Then do it one more time and don't hold anything back. That should give you a pretty accurate maximum heart rate. The bill should be a half mile long. Then you can calculate long runs, threshold and easy runs. Mine runs a bit high as well but I do see lower rates as my fitness improves. I don't run with it all the time. Takes the fun out of running.

Nothing funner than looking at a number on my wrist for 2 hours, don't know what you are talking about.

Hey flat... You need a hobby..... other than running!