Wow, my runs on Saturday and Sunday were both horrible, Sunday's being much worse then Saturday's. I ran 5kms Saturday, then proceeded to bike about 50 or so kms. Sunday was going to do my long run and then a short bike ride on my new road bike. I only managed to do about 7kms on Sunday, and that was with adding a minute to what my average pace time has been. I couldn't even dig energy from reserves. I was happy I managed to do 7kms though!
After this I need to take a look at my diet again and make sure I'm drinking enough water.
On the up side, how did we ever manage to do a run or bike ride without technology? I'm loving my new Garmin (Forerunner 210). It'll tell me when my heart rate is too low or too high. I'm not sure if it's working properly, it kept telling me today that my heart rate was going below 100 beats a minute while running, that's highly doubtful! Although it didn't reach my max, so, need to work harder.
I will be adding a pyramid to my training this week. One of my coworkers gave me a pyramid mostly to beat one of the guys I work with :) I know, horrible! The set up goes like this, one minute run as hard as you can, one minute slow jog, repeat once, then two minutes run as hard as you can, one minute slow jog, repeat once. Three minutes run as hard as you can, one minute slow jog, repeat once. Four minutes hard run, walk or slow jog 5 minutes, then repeat entire thing (with only one four minute hard run) the other way. Apparently if you run four times a week (at least) and add this as one of your runs you can increase your pace. Should be fun considering I also need to add hills this week! Good times.
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