Aerobic Base Training Week 6

Weight: 76.4  BMI: 14.1 RHR 42
Used my Garmin for RHR this time, and don't know if it is related, but it was high for a while 45-50. I had to consciously relax and breathe to get it down to 42. I don't know if that is the most accurate way to do it or not...

Sun: 1:29:51/19/4:44/142/Ultras/3/Confidence up. Another good Sunday run. Got up at 6:00 a.m. for this one before working on the farm in Kashiwa, and it was already blazing hot when I got out the door at 6:30. Went to the 21k mark on the Arakawa and did 10 downhill repeats, which accounts for the slower average pace. It is a bit too short of a hill, but it was interesting anyway. Was a little tired on the way back, but not bad. Then really got my butt kicked with a full day of manual labor out in the hot sun!
Mon: Rest. A day with the boys!
Tue: 53:23/142/Ultras/3/Confidence up. What a difference a full day of rest makes! Worked pretty hard to stay at my MAR during this run, and am pretty confident I was keeping around a 4:30 pace. Wish I had more varied terrain and more hills to run on, but it was a good summer night run anyway.
Wed: Rest, but again not really. Hard work at the farm, very physical, so decided to forego the run.
Thu: 43:35/138/Ultra/2/Confidence up. This was a recovery run, recovery both from the previous day's manual labor, and from my health check and swallowing all that barium. Just took it easy, and did not try to to hit my MAR.
Fri: 54:20/142/Lunas/2/Confidence up. My first hard run all the way home in the lunas. Overall, it went quite well, I was really pushing to hit my MAR through a lot of it. My feet felt fine, and only slight irritation between my toes in the right foot (last time it was the left). I also felt a little irritation in my left foot outside, the ball, and I wonder if it is because it is a bit loose for some reason. I did the cool down BF, and was a bit shocked to see that the leather on both shoes was starting to delaminate slightly.
Sat: 1:00/12k/5:00/143/BF/2. This was definitely a recovery run. I was pretty beat from running hard home the day before, but was pretty happy that I could go out BF after that. Ran mostly on grass, and did try to take it easy, but my HR kept going up, despite that I was taking it easy. It was at least partly because it was super hot!

Total time: 5:01:09. A solid week, good to get over 5 hrs finally, although mileage probably still not very high. Don't really need to start a build up until late August, so should be fine for now. May need to actually consider taking a light week soon?