The First Run of 2019 Fastest in a Long Time!!
Yes I know I should do a 2018 recap post before starting on new 2019 posts. However, I want to get back to posting more often so I will write about yesterday rather than last year!
My first thought about yesterday ‘s morning run was that I would run a four mile course. But the more I thought about t, the more I felt that I would rather stay with the 5K course that I’ve been running. Maybe though, I would try to make it a more of a tempo run.
In order to try to keep my tempo up I decided to make an album from the power metal group Dragonforce the soundtrack for the run. The album I chose was Inhuman Rampage.
It was a great choice and an even better run. I crossed the first mile marker running at a 9:55 minute/ mile pace. I checked my pulse it was a little high, so I slowed up a little for about a quarter of a mile. After that I was going slightly down hill, so I just ran comfortably. My second mile pace ended up a second faster than the first! Throughout the third mile, I tried to slow down, in order to lower my heart rate. Figuring then, I would have a little left for a sprint at the end of the run! I was right. I actually finished with final sprint pace of 8:33 min/mile (over the last 0.12 miles lol). Here are the results;
The Results
3.12 miles 30:52 minutes Pace: 9.53 min/mile
Mile 1 9:55 Mile 9:54 Mile 3 – 10:02 Mile 0.12 8:33
Calories Burned: 389 Avg HR 141 bpm Max HR 154
The Soundtrack
As I previously stated, the soundtrack of the run was Inhuman Rampage from Dragonforce and a it was a good one! It is an unbelievably hard fast guitar-laden album and the driving beat keep my feet a movin’. Here’s a little about the album from Wikipedia:
Inhuman Rampage is the third studio album by English power metal band DragonForce, released on 6 January 2006 and 20 June 2006 in North America. In the United States, the album reached number 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart; it also reached No. 103 on the Billboard 200 chart, and its first single “Through the Fire and Flames” has received rock radio and Fuse TV airplay, and has appeared as a playable track on the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rocksmith 2014 Edition – Remastered. The album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry for selling over 60,000 copies in the United Kingdom,[4] has sold over 350,000 units in the United States,[5] and more than half a million worldwide. Read More
Here’s the video for “Through the Fire and Flames”
