Morning plan all to hell, but Garmin behaved

RUN 6 miles in 1:03, ave HR 122
BIKE COMMUTE 9.5 (to be updated?)

My plan was to bike indoors then run. 50-60 mins of bike, then 35-40 mins of run. But upon seeing the temps still at 60F I realized I couldn't ride indoors! But it was dark and rain was imminent, so that excludes biking safely. So what happened in the end? I only ran?!

I farted around the house all morning, checking on the toilet repair (supply line valve drip after replacing wax ring on Sunday), walking the dog, eating a pre, then a run-stretch-shower, then a M1 then a more M1 before finally leaving the house.

I ran in shorts!! Could have worn a short sleeve but glad I didn't as the rain got cold. The weather blew in about 30 mins into the run. I rolled up the sleeve to see if the tech shirt caused any issues.

First quarter mile....very few beeps from HR alert...yay...next half...a few beeps but all in the 140-145 range...I consider that OK....mailed a letter, kept going, and the rest of the run went that way. In fact, at 20-ish minutes in my HR dropped to under 120 and mostly stayed there. The change around 20 mins was an amazing drop, maybe the rain or some sweat changed the readings? I know I warm up after 20 mins, but still, the graph is shocking.

The rain was pleasant but getting cold. My plan for 4 miles turned into 6 once I realized I probably wasn't going to get a ride in. Towards the end I picked up the pace to see how the HR responded. At this point in the run, I still didn't know the cadence was being tracked so I didn't pay attn to that.

My pace increased, cadence increased a bit too, late into this the garmin HR went up back to the high 120's. So I'm still learning. I'm not sure if the HR drops in the graph is stoplight stops or misreads. It's hard to run at such a slow pace, but here hours later it's like the run never happened, I feel relaxed and not tired.

A few things to note. I'm eating too much before these workouts to keep my stomach from growling. Need to alter. And my left hip hurt with this run, the change in form from running slower? And my low carb experiment continues, my energy isn't zippy but is it ever lately? I quickly graphed my carbage since January 1st and found that I've dropped from 150-190g/day to 50-70g/day. That doesn't include the kombucha, and I'm not a perfect logger. But it's a trend.