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mileage posted: Wed 2011-09-07 23:00:37 tags: fitness
Session #14: (per twitter) ‎3.3mi / 48.00 minutes, peaking at 6.5mph for a half-lap, regularly finishing half-lap runs at 4.8ish mph jogging.

The best part of this was as I was coming up on the end of lap 13 (3.25 miles, my psychological "home stretch") I was all "wow I can do this in well under my 49m20s best previous time", so I stepped up to ~5.3mph. And I hit it at a point where I was well-recovered, so I just pounded on past the 3.3 mile mark to run out a bit over a half-lap (to the 3.5 mi mark) at that pace before cooldown.

Then as I was showering off... I found myself spitting up a little blood. That was a bit scary, but I'm in no position to go running to a clinic with less than emergency-grade symptoms. So this NIH page says I don't need to seek medical attention, since it was not more than a few teaspoons and there was no accompanying dizziness, pain or shortness of breath. Not "coughing up" blood, i.e. it wasn't enough to be interfering with breathing; and I don't have that wheezy lungs-full-of-mucus feeling of a respiratory infection. I do push my lung capacity when I run, but I quit smoking 4.5 years ago, my lungs are supposed to be about as healthy as if I never smoked by now.

Oh and session #13 was last Friday (per twitter) ‎3.3mi in 49m20s, peaking at 6.3mph