Great afternoon for a run, so decided to set my Garmin Virtual Partner at 7:30 per mile and see how I fared trying to maintain a fairly ambitious pace.
As with all my post-stress fracture runs, I started out fairly conservatively. I did, however, manage to “catch” my Virtual Partner (Jonesy) just after the four mile mark and eventually finished almost a minute ahead of him.
Splits: 7:58 7:35 7:31 7:03 6:38
Average pace: 7:21 per mile
HR average: 146
HR max: 164
To mix things up a bit I switched back to the Brooks Launch for this grassy run, and they felt great! To be honest it was nice not to have the pressure to stay on the midfoot as I do with the Newton Gravitas as I’m still wary of landing on the mid/forefoot with every foot strike. Although it goes against my natural running style, being able to throw in the odd heel strike is quite reassuring.
For the record this was also my longest run in just over a couple of months and took place on the two week anniversary of getting rid of the boot. Pretty good progress if I do say so myself.
Foot pain = 2 on a scale of 1 to 10.