Six Miler at Ft. Richardson

I am interested to hear how everyone's six miler went.  We had a pretty good run - did this one on Saturday, October 24.  Temp was about 46 degrees but it was cloudy and a little humid.  It was sunny and warmer about an hour before we started the run.  I took a photo of Michelle borrowing my gloves at the north end of the landing strip on our run.  There is some new "termination dust" in background Chugach.

I fixed the link to the GPS site, click here to get to the site and see the map and stats.  On the top right you should see three buttons for Details, Splits, and Player.  Choose player, then at the left side, above the graph, click on the play button to watch the bouncing Brad and Michelle for six miles.  You can see different stats and graphs for the run too.  The stats have been fun to track the last couple of months and show a definite improvement.

The six miler went well - the last two miles were a little rough.  We both agreed that aerobically it was no problem.  However, some soreness set in after about four miles but we ran through it.  When you look at HR and Pace on the graph together you see a crazy sawtooth pattern which is a sign of a good heart (being able to respond and recover quickly) which is good - which is at least one thing that is working.

Total Stats

• Distance: 6.01 miles
• Time: 1:27:29.68
• Ave pace: 14:33 min/mile
• Ave speed: 4.1 mph
• Max speed: 5.5 mph
• Calories: 923
• Ave HR: 136
• Max HR: 15 bpm
• Acent: 736 ft
• Decent: 681 ft

Splits

1. 14:27
2. 13:57
3. 14:25
4. 15:24
5. 14:23
6. 14:44

Not quite negative splits, pretty even, we will have to work on those.  The second mile was a gradual uphill, not sure how we dreamed our way through that one.