Last week at lunchtime, I did a run which ended up being an hour. It felt good. I covered 7.15 miles in an hour, it was a beautiful clear day and I loved it – a great way to break up my day.
My avg HR was 154, nice and easy, and I pushed it a little at the end to leak at 174. I decided it would be a good idea to do weekly hour time trials, just to push it a little and push my fitness up a bit too.
This morning, at 6am, with the wind blowing a hoolie, and after me not being able to sleep until about 1am – it didn’t seem like such a good idea.
But I’d told everyone on my Facebook page that I was going – so I did. I didn’t manage it out for 630am, but I did make it out.
There were a few things that could have stopped me:
1. I couldn’t sleep so got up and eventually got to sleep at 1am (6 ish hours sleep). 2. Alarm went off at 610 and I snoozed it.
3. FG left all the lights off and shut he door (expecting me to lie in). 4. My workout wasn’t preloaded on my Garmin so I had to load it on.
All good though, I got out at 6:52am and I was back an hour later. It was really windy but I figured I could try and use it to my advantage – and run fast intervals with it at my back when I could. 🙂
The aim of a distance trial is about like stone trial, only that a time trial has a set distance, and you try to beat your time. I prefer distance trials, where you run for a set time, and try to beat your distance.
Last week, I just ran steady 1 hour, so my aim was to beat 7.15 miles.
– I warmed up for 10 minutes,
– Then ran fast for 1 minute
– Recovered (jogging) for 1 minute
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– And recovered or finished off the run, with 10 minutes running.
I messed up intervals 6-8 by mistake, but after that I got into the rhythm.
I had Eminem screaming in my ears and I ran up to and almost around Maxwell park. The wind was a right f€$ker, but it woke me up for sure.
After all that, I did manage to run further in an hour… just by 0.01 miles! Oops. I’m blaming the wind and the mess up of the intervals at the start.
It was a good run, but I still think running fast is hard and horrible. 😉 (hopefully I’ll see some fitness benefits from it).
Your comment of the wind on this day you ran is quite humorous, reminds me of the heat in Phoenix, AZ. Many thanks for your inspiration & insight, Monica R. Woodford