| Question to the readers: how do you manage your breathing when preparing to run and actually running? To add focus, my goals are increasing my flow of oxygen while I'm running; I very deliberately breathe at a particular rate while running - partly to pace myself, but do you suggest any breathing exercises or other training techniques?
Today's workout was a brief morning run. My training had stopped over the past week, predominantly due to overcommitment. It should not seem surprising then that my performance and condition on this workout did not meet my typical expectations. I felt fatigued; the Longfellow-Harvard loop, which has become somewhat routine for me, was very taxing. I ran at 3 steps/breath for most of the workout; I usually feel that my breathing, rather than my muscles are my limiting factor, but today everything was constraining.
My expectation for pace is some linear function of running time; for a thirty minute run, my target pace is 5 minutes per kilometer (8:05/mi). I will have to take more measurements of my capabilities before more precisely modeling my target pace, but I estimate a pace increasing by about 1 minute per kilometer per hour, for times less than two hours.
While running, I improved on the design of an experiment for quantifying tone color of a French horn, which I mean to run once I've worked out the hardware and execution details. I will make a spread of long tone recordings, then submit them to horn professionals and other musicians for a quantitative map (i.e. on a scale from 1-10, how warm is this, etc). I will then map the Fourier and phase measurements to the qualitative assessments from the musicians. Should be exciting.
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