• Distance 2.00 miles
  • Time 00:24:30
  • Average Speed 4.90 mph
  • Average Pace 12:15 min/mile
  • Heart Rate Average 157.00 bpm
  • Heart Rate Max 169.00 bpm
  • Elevation 2343.00 feet
  • Resting Heart Rate 47.00 bpm

Tags: home, treadmill, easy

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Running

July 17, 2008

Posted at 10:42 PM
  • Distance 1.10 miles
  • Time 00:20:00
  • Average Speed 3.30 mph
  • Average Pace 18:10 min/mile
  • Heart Rate Average 122.00 bpm
  • Heart Rate Max 167.00 bpm
  • Elevation 2343.00 feet
  • Resting Heart Rate 47.00 bpm

Tags: home, treadmill, easy

Please don't laugh at this one. For once in my life something considered "intense" athletically was far too easy for me.

My plan was to run this 20 min "intense" pre programed hilly course on my treadmill once a week. Since the incline, pace, and time would all be kept constant I planned to compare HR week after week to look for improvement.

Well the intense workout labeled at 6 mph and 10% incline started with a slow 3 mph walk on a flat that slowly built to 10%. Then it dropped to flat again and started slowly raising the speed to 6 mph. After that it dropped back to a walking pace until the work out finished.

I should have gone further but I was so disappointed my plan was not going to work I just quit when the program finished. So this makes two easy days in a row. And I never plan to do those stupid programs again.

I'm probably going to a medium distance fartlek type workout before I lift.

Here is the question I pose, my highest miles/week thus far has been 12. I'm at 12 now so I'll be going over that this week, but it has been hard and my legs have dragged and the HR has been higher at lower paces later in the week. Should I repeat what I did this week next week or should I keep trying to add on miles?

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Bandit says,

I dunno
Thats kinda the boat I am in too
I added some milage this week, but for instance today was just bruatally hard, maybe due to the dew point and the temperature being so close together, or because my legs were just burned out for the week.
I would say do another week like this one, (more than 12 milies) and then step it up next week.

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Sagitus says,

Does your treadmill let you set the pace for the "intense" workout? What I have seen in the past is you can manually increase the difficulty and it will still run the same workout, only instead of a 3mph walk as the baseline it would be maybe a 5mph jog and work up to a 7 or 8 mph speed portion and then back down. Another thing is that the program may have been designed around a 1 hr time frame, and it might not condense down to a 20 min workout well. I don't know what the capability of your treadmill is, but those are a couple things I've seen when I've used various treadmill workout programs in the past. As far as bringing up your miles next week goes I would keep the first few days of the week the same, since that is when a bulk of the milage is going on, and if your body responds better towards the end of the week you can extend one of those workouts to add more total miles. I've recently started stretching again after running and I'm surprised how much faster it helps my legs recover, so if you aren't doing that it might be a good idea, especially after long runs where your legs are keeping a constant tempo for an extended period of time. I only spend about 5 min to do quads, hamstrings, groin, calves, and back.

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