Fitness levels are OK, averaging 50-60 miles has taken care of that - and endurance is also OK, a twenty miler on Sunday, a 18.5 miler the week before and teh ability to throw out 13-14-15 mile runs means I am doing OK.
So what about races and targets ?
I started wearing my Garmin again last week for the first time in 4-5 months, sometimes gadgets, watches, herat rate monitors can take away from the running you are doing - you know when you are running well without a watch to tell you and you know when you are not running well also.
The main plus of a Garmin is its HRM facility to ebale you to run in the zone you need to run in - Sunday 20 mile run for example left me please that I averaged at 139 bpm (OK fastest mile was 7:30 and the uphill mile was 9:30+ so it was never going to be a speed session)
Anyway the one race I am entered for is VLM - which leaves me with a 'do I go for it' and have one effort at sub 3:00 or do I enjoy it and settle for 3:15-3:20 - still haven't decided.
