easy
Morning Steady Run
May 25, 2026
Morning Steady Run
Distance
4.0 mi
Time
42:24
Avg pace
10:35 /mi
Avg HR
139 bpm
Splits
1
10:46 /mi
easy
2
10:50 /mi
easy
3
10:24 /mi
tempo
4
10:22 /mi
tempo
0.0
11:26 /mi
easy
Elevation Profile
+19' gain
start
finish
After a long run in high humidity I decided to take this one back to a lighter effort. Flat terrain in a beach road but the wind was stiff on the way back. Held pace and heart rate pretty well for a solid finish with the wind at my back.
Coach read
Orange Beach steady run — 10:34/mi average sits well below the 8:30–8:50 plan target, but your HR (avg 139, max 152) also ran well under the 155–165 bpm target, so this was a genuinely controlled Zone 3 effort on a holiday Monday in vacation heat.
The split pattern tells the real story: you held 163–165 cadence almost perfectly across all four miles while HR climbed only 22 bpm lap-to-lap — that’s a disciplined, even effort, not a drift problem.