Truckin’
Yeah, I missed one day last week. But I did all of the long days. I don’t feel so bad.
Here’s what I am doing this week:
Week 4:
5 workouts this week.
Day 1: warm up, then: 1/2 mile jog, 1/4 mile walk, 3/4 mile jog, 1/4 mile walk, 1/2 mile jog: total 2 1/4 miles. go home.
Day 2: warm up, then: 1 mile jog (4 laps) 1/4 mile walk, 1 mile jog. total 2 1/4 miles. go home.
Day 3: warm up, then: 2 1/4 mile jog (9 laps) NO WALKING! Day 4: Repeat Day 2
Day 5: Repeat Day3
Monday
Location: Track
Runs:
1/2 mile: 8:16 pace
3/4 mile: 8:49 pace
1/2 mile: 8:58 pace
Max HR: 186
Avg HR: 159 (includes walking sections)
Max Pace: 7:03
Today
Location: My block
1st mile (clockwise): 8:22
1/4 mile walk (not measured)
2nd mile (clockwise): 8:56
Max HR: 185
Avg HR: 176
Max Pace: 6:49
Avg Pace: 8:37
Awesome! So cool to see progress. It will be nice when I am running full miles from here on out. When I am doing that, I’ll track pace in a spreadsheet or something. Hard to compare pace so far because a pace for a half mile is very different than a pace for 2 miles. I’m trying to keep it consistent though. I also am going to try to ONLY measure therunning sections with my watch. I need to go calibrate it again, it is definitely slightly off, so those paces under Max and Avg might be slightly off. The ones where I indicate how fast for each distance are accurate though since I am using stopwatch. The others are calculated by the footpod. We’ll get that totally accurate in the next few days and I’ll post. I’m also going to do the “Fitness Test” that the watch does. It measures your VO2… That is the capacity of your body to utilize oxygen. So it is a measure of seeing how fit you are. I’ll post that. I am also keeping track of my weight, fat %, muscle weight, etc using our scale at home. I’ll post that too, what the hell, maybe it’ll keep me honest.
So today, I walked at lunch, after running by Academy to buy some Under Armour tights (for cold weather). Who knew those were so expensive!? $75 for a pair of long tights and a long sleeve tights shirt!!! So I walked at lunch, then ran after work, and just now worked out too. I’m doing just a short series of supersets for working out right now. Just to get my body used to it, then I’ll start really training with weights. Good stuff!
