The Veluwezoom trail run went as planned today. The goal was an average pace of 7min/km. To achieve that, I'd decided to run the first 20km at my base heart rate of 129. If I still had some energy left in the last 10km, I could let go. And that's pretty much how it went. Although the heat and high humidity also caused a slight increase in heart rate.
Final verdict: Mission accomplished! 
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Got out of bed early today to do my final taper workout. The race tomorrow is a B-goal for this year and I am curious how I am doing performance wise. Last weeks I added some more threshold work to my training and increased the base pace slightly. I hope this will result in a bit higher average pace tomorrow.
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The Garmin training plan mandated a rest day today. But the weather was too nice not to go outside and play. To avoid using up all my energy for Sunday's Trail Run, I took a seriously easy bike ride this afternoon 
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Read this nice and usefull oneliner on Strava today. It matches my experience when I started with running as my main sport few years ago.
According to Garmin's Race Prognosis, a time of 2:47:08 should be possible for the 31km Trailrun race next Sunday. Personally, I'd like to keep it to over an little hour longer :-) 
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Starting Taper week with a recovery run.
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The HRrest and HRV graphs from last month show the progress made with my Ultra running training plan. HRrest is slowly moving down while HRV is slowly moving up 
After a long day visiting friends, still a quick workout in the evening.
No longer in the mood to go outside so opted for the Garmin daily suggested indoor cycling cross-training. Today it was a short base ride (45m@hr124).
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A shorter long run today. With the Garmin training plan I run the basic runs at a slightly higher heart rate than with Runmotion or Humango. This higher avg HR also results in a slightly higher average pace which can be seen in the attached statistics on Strava. Next week, taper week with the Veluwezoom Trailrun on Sunday, 32km and fairly flat. A good moment to see where I stand.
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I noticed that, for a long time already, Garmin has trouble calculating total time in workouts.
In the added screenshot the total time calculation is 10+3x(7+2)+10=47 minutes.
According to Garmin it is only 45 minutes .
Yes! Rain has come 
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And just after my run .
The heat wave is over 
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Not sure what's the root cause but since a week my HRrest dropped slowly resulting in a HRrest of 39 this morning.
Is it because of taper started this week? Is it because of switch to Garmin DSW training with more high intensity blocks? Or because of both? Who knows. Anyone any clues?
It's done!
Threshold training at 36'C .
And the Garmin DSW workouts are starting to do its job. Garmin status is back to productive again 
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It's over 35 degrees here and the national heat plan is in effect. I have a 3x7min Threshold training scheduled for this afternoon. That's going to be a nice sweat 
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Must be doing something good with training. Highest Race time predictions for all distances in a year.
Last week I switched to Garmin DSW as training method. Very obediently followed all recommended workouts until today. As a long run I should run 1h30 at basic pace. That was a bit too short for me so I made it 2h30 hours. No complaints so far
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Strava just rolled out a new feature: Streaks.
Just did a quick check to see my own Streak.
The week streak feels a bit like cheating. There are hardly any weeks that you aren't working out one single day.
So a high number isn't much of a surprise when you are a regular sporter 
Garmin Base run today: 60m@hr129 (Z2).
I ran on the paved road for a change. The reward was the fastest 10km in a year .
Decided to try Garmin DSW again and run daily (instead of every other day). Today I got a threshold run to catch up on the threshold deficit 
. I hope it will be a bit more relaxed in the coming weeks 
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