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Friday, April 24, 2009

Say Goodbye to the Unicorn

Things are improving quite a lot lately. The weather is still sketchy, but no more ice, snow, or unbearably cold temps lately. I've even willed myself into wearing shorts on a couple of mornings.

I'll see how the weekend of workouts go, and by Sunday morning our little pink friend will sparkle no more. Cheers!

5 comments:

Patrick said...

Sort of too bad, the unicorn was growing on me. Me like shiny thing.

Eric said...

I may just have to shrink it to pocket size and keep it in my blog shorts. I confess that I am a fan of the sparkles. It's a weakness!

Ewen said...

That's a bit sad Eric. Poor unicorn!

I was wondering what percentage of max HR is your MP HR? Is that the HR you'd start a marathon at, or what you'd expect to average for the race?

Eric said...

My maxHR has fluctuated over the last couple of years between 176-178. Just on Thursday, I hit 177 at the tail end of a hill workout (I wasn't working that hard the whole way, just the last 30 seconds). So 178 is probably still accurate.

I think Mystery Coach has mentioned in the past that 154-ish is a good average marathon HR for my profile. I can't say from experience, because I left the HR strap off during both of my marathons. Anyway 154 would be about 87% of maxHR for me.

Yeah, bummer about the unicorn, but I think you'll be excited by, (and even a little bit fearful of) the unicorns replacement. If your mind explodes when you see what is coming, don't blame me.

Mike said...

Always remember: Unicorns only show what condition you are in, they don't make you into that condition...