Today was yet another snow day for my work. Yay education system. So my speed work was done during the day and not after work.
I finally got up around 9a and went out to the living room and still laid on the couch until 11a. I had a bagel & some Gatorade to help me with the run.
I headed over a little after noon. About half full. My plan was to do a half mile warm up, 1 mile run, 0.5 mile jog, 1 mile run, 0.5 mile jog and 0.5 mile cool down, total of 4 miles and then I would walk another 0.5 after I was done. I set the treadmill for the interval setting. Jog of 5.5mph 10:54 min/mi and run at 7.0 8:34 min/mi. The plan said to do 8:37 so I figured that was close enough.
The first mile I was saying, Yea, baby, I can do this! Until 0.7 mile into it and then I started to feel the pain. Wow, that was hard. The treadmill said my heart rate was at 189. 1/2 mile jog at 5.5 but turned that down to 5.2 and it didn't last long enough. Another 1 mile at the run pace but I turned it down to 6.9 which is an 8:41 min/mi. The first half went by well and at the .55 mark I sped it back up to 7.0 and finished it off. I was urging myself out loud to keep going at quarter mile left and then I really urged myself at with only .15 left. I was DYING at the end. Heart rate was 185. I jogged for a mile at the 5.5 mph pace. Then I walked. In the middle of walking I was feeling like my heart was getting back to normal but it was 124.
That was tough. I am still half & half on the speed work. It's short & fast but it hurts so much!! Grrr...
I finally got up around 9a and went out to the living room and still laid on the couch until 11a. I had a bagel & some Gatorade to help me with the run.
I headed over a little after noon. About half full. My plan was to do a half mile warm up, 1 mile run, 0.5 mile jog, 1 mile run, 0.5 mile jog and 0.5 mile cool down, total of 4 miles and then I would walk another 0.5 after I was done. I set the treadmill for the interval setting. Jog of 5.5mph 10:54 min/mi and run at 7.0 8:34 min/mi. The plan said to do 8:37 so I figured that was close enough.
The first mile I was saying, Yea, baby, I can do this! Until 0.7 mile into it and then I started to feel the pain. Wow, that was hard. The treadmill said my heart rate was at 189. 1/2 mile jog at 5.5 but turned that down to 5.2 and it didn't last long enough. Another 1 mile at the run pace but I turned it down to 6.9 which is an 8:41 min/mi. The first half went by well and at the .55 mark I sped it back up to 7.0 and finished it off. I was urging myself out loud to keep going at quarter mile left and then I really urged myself at with only .15 left. I was DYING at the end. Heart rate was 185. I jogged for a mile at the 5.5 mph pace. Then I walked. In the middle of walking I was feeling like my heart was getting back to normal but it was 124.
That was tough. I am still half & half on the speed work. It's short & fast but it hurts so much!! Grrr...
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You are going to lap me during the next Memphis Marathon.
Tonight was my first speedwork workout. I kicked its BUTT! Once I eat dinner and recover I'm going to post about it. Just had to get that out of my system first.
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