Ooooouuuuch. I'm assuming your legs are feeling better now?

With the 405, you have the HR monitor.  If you run by HR and not by pace, this will help you listen to your body.  When your body gets tired, you can keep the same HR but you pace will slow. You will still get the benefit of the workout, even at the slower pace.

I can relate. I'm new and only running 3.1 miles at a time, but even at that distance there are times I struggle with knowing when to push through something and when to cut my body a little slack. By reading posts like yours and of other more expereinced runners I'm hoping to learn the lessons without having to suffer myself!

RunninUgly wrote:

 

Thanks devoted. I am buying the HR monitor strap next week and plan on using my HR zones to guage my runs. I am sure that will slow me down quite a bit. But I am hoping over time to get a little faster by doing some interval work and fartleks.

Actually, that is the beauty of HR training.  If you do the mojority of the runs in Zone 2 (on the 5 zone scale) then your body will learn to work more efficiently. If you just stick to that HR zone, you will find that you wil be running faster but in the same zone. 

Thanks for sharing.. my Garmin 305 came with HR monitor. I wear it but midchest hurts the after wearing it.

I had to share this-- On Sunday I went for a run. Just under a mile and a half in I got a pain in the outside of my right knee. I didn't know if I should stop or keep going...I'm stubborn and hate to think of myself as a wimp. Yep, I kept going. By the time I hit 3 miles I was limping and by that afternoon I could barely walk. So nope. I did not learn the easy way. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.