A couple days ago I decided to try using a Garmin workout plan, mostly out of curiosity.
Saturday it told me to do a recovery run of 26 minutes at 12 minute pace... I ran 26 minutes at 10 minute pace which seemed really slow.
Sunday it told me to rest, so I walked 4 miles but tried to keep my HR in the 110-125 range.
Monday it told me to do a recovery run - I mostly ignored but ran an "easy" 4 miles at 8:50 miles.
Today it told me to do a recovery run - 26 minutes at 11:15 pace. I finally listened and actually did the workout. 2.4 miles with an average HR of 123. I actually put my watch in workout mode which created a little gauge on my watch that helped me target the pace (there was a green range and a red range on each side, needle would go into the red if I went too fast or slow)
Running 11-minute pace is not natural for me but I finally sucked up my pride and listened to the watch. I will give it a couple weeks and see how it goes.. Hopefully at some point it will tell me something different from "recovery run"
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