Lunch - 5.5 easy miles on the treadmill at 8:00 pace. Wore my HR monitor strap again to synch with the HR monitor on the treadmill. Average HR was a bit higher today than last Friday - probably because I didn't get enough sleep, despite getting to bed at a reasonable hour. I woke up at 4:30 with a very sore back, and couldn't get back to sleep. Average HR for the run was about 153, max HR was 160. It also did something really weird that I am sure was not right - when I first started out, it showed my HR up at about 178 for about the first 1/2 mile, then it dropped down to the upper 140's. I will attribute this to the HR strap not having any sweat or other conductivity gel to conduct the electrical impulse from the heart to the transmitter in the strap. That's about the only thing I can think of . . . PM - untimed run with Adam, may have been as much as 0.25, but I didn't want to pressure him. 0.65 with Joey at 11:30 pace, then 1.5 with Samuel at 10:40 pace. I made sure today that Samuel was the one leading, and I was just giving him feedback about his pace so that he knew whether to speed up or not. For the first 1/2 mile, he was having a real hard time figuring out what the right pace was, but towards the end, he found a good pace and was able to do a good job of maintaining it. One item of concern - just before I started to run with Samuel, my left hamstring kind of cramped up on me a little bit, although it felt fine during the run. After we were done running, it felt a bit sore again. I am going to have Lybi apply the hamstring torture treatment tonight.
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