I felt slow and tired during this run. Don't think I'm going to go long this weekend as I need to recover.
Not getting enough quality sleep lately, and today's run reflected it - weak start, tired from the get go. I felt better but I still feel pretty beat. I had thought about going 666 but not in this heat and not with my legs feeling the way they did.
Easy zone 2/3 run. I should've gone a less time, but I needed to do some recovery wogging as my right achilles was acting up (although maybe running isn't such a bright idea). No matter.
Should be interesting what my watch suggests I do tomorrow. I do plan on getting more than 4 hours of sleep, though.
I was seriously not feeling it this past week. The Weather has been pretty beastly, so the erg it is rather than doing nothing but eating. I've also felt some extremely sharp pain in the left knee from time to time, so running is less desirable. But this was definitely the duration that the watch was calling for.
I think the max HR of 163 was a glitch, so I had to go back to the records of what it was actually showing at the finish.
Splits
Distance: 15000
Time: 71:17.6
Avg/500m: 02:22.6
Drag Factor: 129
Per Mile: 00:07:39
This is bar none the most disciplined zone 2 run I have ever done. Full stop. Now I know what it should really feel like. A lot slower than I think I've been doing, that's for sure. Today was supposed to be a rest day but tomorrow's weather will be less lovely, so today it was.
First time I've run the 4 laps-for-666 loop near my house in a while. The foliage was definitely growing, but the weather was good and I felt all right after rowing yesterday.
It's been hot the last two days, and I was also feeling a fair amount of joint pain, so I switched up to rowing while I was watching some PLL.
Splits
Distance: 10000
Time: 47:37.0
Avg/500m: 02:22.8
Drag Factor: 135
Per Mile: 00:07:4
I took the last two days off, and almost did the same today until I realized it was almost 9pm and I needed to get some lard burning in - as well as heat acclimation. My knees and right ankle definitely hurt and I'm going to chalk it up to old shoes but I didn't think it would hurt that much just at 300mi.
Have not slept well the last few days so taking it easy. 4ish miles, very easy.
My legs were really beat up after Saturday, so I took Sunday off, but I needed to get in some easy base, so I did. Nothing hard, nothing very long. But definitely better than nothing.
I was absolutely not feeling a 666 and decided to run a few miles on the track, but in this case actually felt good enough to do it. So I did, but in a controlled manner.
There are some minor discrepancies between the laps and the eventual distance, probably for small differences in the laps themselves.
I was thinking maybe another 666. That thought was dispelled as soon as I got outside and started running.Holy shit was today's run ill-advised. Not a good sign when I'm dipping well into zone 3 just to snail it. Tomorrow's going to be a rest day. Low humidity made for excellent running weather. Too bad I was too beat up to take advantage of it.
First run after a few days of not working out. Zone 2, 666. It was markedly warmer so no point in going hard after not training properly.
I wasn't sure I wanted to run after it started raining, but I felt better after a mile. Glad I got this in instead of bagging it.
Not easy but not hard either. I was trying to burn lard and in that I think I was mostly successful.
Easy run today, I haven't slept very well the last few days. But I definitely needed to get it done. So I did a very disciplined zone 2 run.
Easy recovery run today, very disciplined and slow. But very necessary.
Not fast, not strong. I was definitely feeling some tirednesss in my legs today but I needed to go long and slow and running laps on the track to get standard distance in was as good an option as any.
I went out thinking it was going to be in the 60F range.
It was not in the 60F range.
I had to work a bit harder than I thought I would. On the other hand, my max VO2 has definitely been increasing and my general speed is also increasing. I'm going to chalk this one up to some marginal weight loss. On the other hand, if I continue the gradual weight loss, I'll definitely be in good position for racing the Bay Bridge 10K in November.
This also comes after my first good night of sleep after three consecutive nights of bad sleep and no exercise. I think I was underhydrated for this run, though. I was definitely feeling it at the end.
Holy fuck bad sleep the last few days is really dragging me down today. Tomorrow is probably going to be a rest day. Or very short.
