Aerobic Base Training Week 9

Weight: 78 BMI: 14.4
A weekend of heavy eating shows clearly. At least my BMI didn't go up again...

Sun: 1:02:07/12.4/5:00/143/Ultra/3+/Confidence up. Woke up at 5:30 for this run in the mountains during our camping trip. All road running, unfortunately, be very beautiful and fun. Ran all downhill at first, and so did my first 5k in just 20:40! Then got to climb up the stairs along the Naramata dam, which was really interesting. Climbed a hill as well, and got up to 1007 meters for a total elevation gain of 343 meters. As always, it made me wish I had a lot more opportunities to run in places like this.
Mon: 58/143/Ultra/3/Confidence up. Another run on the 'dreadmill' at the club. It was interesting again, I ran in shoes because they asked me to last time. Ran hard on flat for about 20 min, then climbed for another 20, up to 10% grade, and then finished with flat running again. Good pace on the flat, and I was plenty beat at the end. I always feel bad for whoever has to clean up my sweat...
Tue: 50:11/143/XC Zoom/1/Confidence down. This should not have been a tough run, it didn't feel that hot out when I started and there was a nice breeze. But my HRM started beeping quite early in the run, despite not feeling like I was running hard, and the same issue continued for most of the run. I played around with nose breathing to see if it made a difference, and it did seem that my HR went up more easily with just nose breathing, although the difference was probably slight. I guess the runs on the past two days were relatively tough, and so my body needed to take it easy.
Wed: 55/BF/MAF Test 2 (see separate post)
Thu: bike 33k
Fri: 50:26/142/Ultra Don't really remember the details of this run home from work, except that it was pretty warm as usual.
Sat: 1:20/17.5/4:32/Ultra/3/Confidence Up. A nice run along the river out in Chiba. We showed up a Reina's house and there was a festival going on across the street, so I almost gave up on running to join in on the festivities, but I made it past that temptation, and was glad I did. It was a pretty cool afternoon with a nice breeze, and boy did that make a difference! Such a nice place to run with all of the sounds of summer. The gravel was pretty hard on my feet in the Ultras, but after I got through that I was fine, and it felt good to be running fairly hard, be nose breathing, and still have my HR stay steady.

Total time: 5:55:44. So close to six hours! A good week overall. Was thinking today that I'd like to get this up to close to 8 hours during my hardest training in late October.