My 3rd “up tempo” workout last night. I decided to try a scaled down version of a the Jack Daniel’s workout of the week. It was supposed to be 5×5 minutes at tempo, which is around 6:05 pace (when I’m in shape), HR 188-193. So, I thought 3×5 of these at the perceived effort of…
Researching and writing out a training plan is pretty time consuming. I haven’t quite committed yet, but I’m thinking about switching over my plan to Jack Daniel’s. The old plan was out of “Advanced Marathoning”. I’ve mapped out Jack’s medium difficulty training plan. Figured it wouldn’t be smart to make a training philosophy change AND…
I had a smile on my face the entire time!! 🙂
Getting better. This one was a little tougher. Last time I did this I had done it after a day of cross training. I think that made it a little easier. Today was done after yesterday’s “long run” of 5 miles. My legs honestly had no strength left in them the last mile tonight. C’mon…
My first “hard” day back. I didn’t have much time to run on Saturday, so decided to make the most out of the time I had. I tried to put in a 2 mile all-out effort. It started out slower & gradually picked it up — first mile was 6:45 (I think I started out…
So I’ve done a little double polling lately as cross training (doesn’t use the hip muscles much). I’m not great at it, which is why it’s good to show up at practice with coaching help once a week. Tonight was my first Vakava practice — I hadn’t gone yet this summer because my hip couldn’t…