Soooo Slow

I decided to test my fitness by running a mile hard. I ran one mile in 8:11 with an average heart rate of 160. It wasn’t an all out effort, but still rather disapointing considering the fact that it was all downhill (there are no flat miles here, so it was either uphill or downhill and I don’t want to even know what my uphill mile time is. There was a headwind, so that may have negated some of the downhill). I can see why they say the best altitude training is to live high and to train low. It was more that fact that my legs aren’t used to a high turnover than the lack of oxygen that was slowing me down. I guess it’s time for some speed work.
On the swimming front, this morning I swam 10×100 yards on 2 minutes with my average time being around 1:28, so that’s going pretty well. Maybe I should look for some high altitude swimming races.