Quote Originally Posted by Susan Otcenas View Post
Today I did my longest run since injuring my IT band: 8.3 miles. I am in the aerobic base building phase right now (Hadd's Phase 1), so these are slooooow miles at very low heartrates. Today I averaged 11:28 per mile at 139bpm. It's surprisingly hard to run this easy, but that's the whole point.
I have been trying this too. It sounds like we run roughly the same pace. It was tough for me to "slow" it down as I have always been one to feel comfortable running with a fairly high HR. My HR on average would be close to 165 with a max near 180 ( I am 42). Today my average HR was 140 with a max of 151...had to walk there just to drop it down. :-) Today I went on one of my longest runs in over a year. I got in 6 miles without my usual hamstring issues and feel like I could go out right now for another run.