The Run – 3.13 Miles
So today was my first run since Thursday the 25th of last month. I took off last week because of a head cold with lots of nasal congestion. Anyway the run was pretty good except for a little heart rate scare that slowed me down.
I completed the first mile in 10:50 and was running fairly comfortably. My HR was around 145-147 beats per minute (bpm). The rate dropped a little over the next half-mile and didn’t hit 147 until I got to the top of a short hill near the 1.75 mile mark. I did a quick check of my HR a few minutes later and it said 183? I didn’t feel bad so I thought it was just a fluke from the Fitbit.
As I passed the 2 mile mark it was still rising 200 then 202 I slowed down but still felt ok. When it went over 210 I though I better stop and make sure everything was OK. When I stopped and started to walk I pushed up the sleeve covering my Fitbit and discovered that the reading had switched from heart rate to miles. So it was 2.16 miles instead of 216 bpm! I was one hand relived and one the other I felt really stupid!! Anyway after I had walked a few feet my HR was really 126 bpm. I started again and finished the run throughout the last mile my HR was between 142-147 bpm like it had been through the first part of the run.
Here are the splits:
Mile 1- 10:50 Mile 2- 11:20 Mile 3- 11:26 Mile 0.13 9:37
So overall it was a good return!
The Soundtrack – Peace, Love and Loud Guitars – Anthony Gomes
The soundtrack for the run was Peace,Love & Loud Guitars the new album from blues artist Anthony Gomes. From Wikipedia:
Anthony Gomes is a Canadian blues and blues rock guitarist and singer. He was born to a Portuguese father and a French-Canadian mother. After his 1998 debut album release Blues in Technicolor, he began touring the United States and Canada and he has since recorded eight more albums. Read More: Wikipedia
I knew throughout the first 1.5 to 1.75 miles that I was running comfortably because never lost contact with the music. Here’s a little about the album From Gones’ Website…..
Peace, Love & Loud Guitars, is the culmination of a life spent honoring blues traditions while never losing sight of his own identity. He is that rare artist able to take the Zen simplicity of blues music, fuse it with the rush of rock and roll, and write memorable new songs that exist somewhere between creative geniuses Willie Dixon and Billy Gibbons. He stands his ground as a creative artist, not a derivative history lesson, and is eager to push the blues back into the mainstream.
“White Trash Princess”, “Nasty Good” and “Whiskey Made Me Do It” are three of the songs that I remember listening to. Any question about the topics??
Two other songs mention blues greats. “Come Down” is a plea for B.B,King to come down from heaven. While the other tells the story of Robert Johnson “Stealin’ from the Devil”
All in all it’s a Great Blues album. So Check it out!
Links for the Further Exploration of the Blues of Anthony Gomes…..
Here’s Anthony with the Official Video for the opening track on Peace, Love & Loud Guitars: “Come Down”
