Saturday, June 18, 2011

Aerobic Base Training Week 3

Got some good ideas from Matt Fitzgerald's book Running by Feel about rating workouts in terms of increasing/decreasing confidence, and measuring enjoyment. I think it makes a lot of sense to judge training on how it makes you feel and how fun it is, instead of just the technical metrics. So I'll add to that to each of my workouts: confidence up/down and 1-3 on the enjoyment scale, 1 being not so enjoyable, 2 neutral, 3 enjoyable.
Sun: Bike 33k. My legs were still in a lot of pain from the trail run on Friday, but I had the genius idea that biking to work would help me loosen up. And then of course I decided I had to try to make part of it an aerobic workout so pushed myself. Needless to say, I could barely go up and down stairs for the next three days because of my quads.
Mon-Tue Rest due to serious quad pain.
Wed: Bike 33k Quads still a bit sore, so took it very easy.
Thu: 42:49/144/XC/3/Confidence up Zoom My first time using the new HRM for the Garmin. Seems to work fine, but I didn't know how to set up the alarm yet, so was doing it by looking, and running to fast for most of it. Legs feel much better. Gave this a 3 rating because I was so happy to be running again.
Fri: 30:06/143/Ultra/3/Confidence up. Got my new Ultras from Vivobarefoot! Was pretty worried that they would be too small, and they are with the sock liners, but they fit great without them. They are a super neat design, especially the way the sock liner and extra tongue use hexagon rubber nubs to keep them in place. This first run in them was great, didn't have much time so it was short, but I was happy.
Sat: 1:10/141/15.1k/4:39/Ultra/3/Confidence up. Another good run in the Ultras. Did have some rubbing issues on my heels and on top of my feet, so put on some vaseline before leaving. No issues with the heels when running, but did get some rubbing on the top of my right foot especially because I have to tighten that shoe more.

Total time: 2:22:55 Bad week, but ok considering I could barely walk for most of it and have eaten no carbs until Saturday.

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