Thursday workouts.
3-mile run with four 2-minute intervals in the a.m.
10-mile bike in the p.m.
I started training with a heart rate monitor. So, it was a new twist to set the interval speed with a goal of hitting 150 bpm for each set. I had to keep bumping the speed up higher to hit my target heart rate. Typically, I would have kept a constant pace, based on some preconceived number.
So, I guess my coach was right about being able to push harder than we thought we could on our hard days with the help of a heart rate monitor. Equally imporant is keeping the heart rate low on the easy days. She says endurance athletes have a tendency of training too much in the middle - training too hard on easy days and not hard enough on hard days.
Cassie
10-mile bike in the p.m.
I started training with a heart rate monitor. So, it was a new twist to set the interval speed with a goal of hitting 150 bpm for each set. I had to keep bumping the speed up higher to hit my target heart rate. Typically, I would have kept a constant pace, based on some preconceived number.
So, I guess my coach was right about being able to push harder than we thought we could on our hard days with the help of a heart rate monitor. Equally imporant is keeping the heart rate low on the easy days. She says endurance athletes have a tendency of training too much in the middle - training too hard on easy days and not hard enough on hard days.
Cassie
"Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer."
40 minutes of weights (back/bi/shoulders)
30 minute run on the TM "stronger - longer", 10 min @ 7.0 MPH, 10 min @ 7.5 MPH, and then 10 min @ 8.0 MPH
1 hour spin class where our S. African instructor tried to kill us.
30 minute run on the TM "stronger - longer", 10 min @ 7.0 MPH, 10 min @ 7.5 MPH, and then 10 min @ 8.0 MPH
1 hour spin class where our S. African instructor tried to kill us.
Where are we going?? And why am I in this handbasket??
right now. somewhere. somebody is working harder than you.
right now. somewhere. somebody is working harder than you.
Nadda.
Which means, I am going to make myself get up and do at least a 6.5 mile run in the morning. Rain or shine. WHO AM I KIDDING!!! IT IS SEATTLE AREA!! IT WILL BE RAINING!
Which means, I am going to make myself get up and do at least a 6.5 mile run in the morning. Rain or shine. WHO AM I KIDDING!!! IT IS SEATTLE AREA!! IT WILL BE RAINING!
Every morning in Africa
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning inAfrica
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
4.24 mile walk at lunch, another mile with my dog in the evening.
Bay to Breakers 12K May 15, 2011 (1:54:40) First 5K 5/23/11 (41:22)
Half Marathons: Napa: 7/18/10 (4:11:21) 7/17/11 (3:30:58) 7/15/12 (3:13:11.5)
SJ Rock and Roll: 10/2/10 (3:58:22) Run Surf City: 2/6/11 (3:19:54)
Diva: 5/6/12 (3:35:00)
HW/SW/CW 349/326/176
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
Half Marathons: Napa: 7/18/10 (4:11:21) 7/17/11 (3:30:58) 7/15/12 (3:13:11.5)
SJ Rock and Roll: 10/2/10 (3:58:22) Run Surf City: 2/6/11 (3:19:54)
Diva: 5/6/12 (3:35:00)
HW/SW/CW 349/326/176
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
22.23 mi bike ride.
HW - 225 SW - 191 GW - 132 CW - 122
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