Interesting tempo run on the beach this morning. Looked like a total geek, wearing my Timex Ironman lap watch AND my Polar heart rate monitor (which doesn't keep track of laps) but I wanted to be metrics-driven today. Warmed up as we were running down the 2 km hill and after that tried to keep my HR constant around 185 for 8 minutes, took a walk/jog break of 4 minutes then increased the HR again to to the upper 180s for 12 minutes. Jogged back home (uphill of course). It was pretty tough but I didn't feel like I was in the red, only in the "burnt orange" zone.

And I went with my sweet partner. It's nice to have a view on his nice... hmm, hamstrings when I am in pain from running.