I bought a running watch recently. I felt that I needed to be better aware of my limits - I often forget myself when running, being distracted with work or family and thinking about all sorts of things. Then 10, 15 minutes later, I realize I am running too fast. I suddenly feel tired and have to slow down - rather annoying!

I wonder if the speed that my body is trying to run when I am distracted is what I can potentially run at if I was completely fit? Or maybe it is my subconscious maximalism - always pushing myself :)

The running watch has been interesting - the default settings for my zone had an upper limit of 155, and I am often pushing above that. Also I am often going a little above 155 and feeling comfortable - this is strange, but I wonder if it is because I am coming back into fitness and with time my heart rate will go down.

I changed the upper limit to 158, but still go over, when running steady, and of course when pushing it in intervals or towards the end of tempo runs it goes way over - touching 170 at times.

Interestingly it seems that my speed is better than ever. I have a 3.08 km terrain run near Göd that I do often, and today hit 4:30 km pace on my second lap. that was a surprise. Need to keep that going.

Before I did last year's Siofok half marathon I was running that at 4:40 and did 4:28 for 21km then. Terrain does seem harder.

Now does that mean I can run a 3 hour marathon in October? :) I think that is a step too far at this stage, but maybe 3h15....