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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: August 15, 2010, 03:24:57 am »8/14/2010
bw = 160
soreness = hamstrings
aches/injuries = left shin bugging a bit, back tight, left knee ached when i woke up then was fine later
ok so bad session tonight! i have to step up my distance days bigtime, i'm not even close to being in the shape i want to be.. felt pathetic tonight.
workout:
- nice long warmup, got loose/broke a good sweat
- 3.9 mile jog = 32:15
-- 1.3 miles = 9:30
-- 2.6 miles = 20:10 (10:40)
-- 3.9 miles = 32:15 (12:05)
ok, so as you can see, each 1.3 miles got worse and worse.. i wanted to run this alot faster than I did, but I just gassed, hard... as you can see i'm just not in shape for distance, mentally or physiolgically.. this has to improve BIGTIME.. i should have at least been able to keep that first 1.3 mile pace, which wasn't that hard to be honest.. but my legs, heart, and brain just turned to mush.
calfs didn't bug me much at all, so happy about that.. although after the run, left calf felt knotted up out of nowhere.
i honestly need to get that down to 3.9 miles in 24 minutes, that's my first goal... that would mean i'm maintaining my 6 minute per mile pace.
above workout translated to minutes per mile:
workout:
- nice long warmup, got loose/broke a good sweat
- 3.9 mile jog = 32:15
-- 1.3 miles = 9:30 = 7:18 minutes per mile
-- 2.6 miles = 20:10 (10:40) = 8:12 minutes per mile
-- 3.9 miles = 32:15 (12:05) = 9:17 minutes per mile
LOL ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
secondly, i need to turn these 3.9 mile days into 5-10 mile days..
next 3.9 mile+ session will be on monday.. tomorrow is sprints/jumps/lifting..
peace
edit: i sweat so bad it was insane.. havn't sweat like that in a while.
Either way, you're putting the road work in so your mile times are gonna improve man. That "bad" session you had is only taking you a step closer to your conditioning goal so keep it up. If I were to guess, you would probably have been a mile or two ahead of me by the time you finished haha.
thanks man.. ya im bummed but this is just my personality.. now i have something in my head to motivate me to do better.. i'm going to try and use exact distances/numbers for everything from now on so that I can properly monitor progress.. once i get in a cycle of pushing myself to run better all the time, then i will be on the right track.. now i've got some numbers to beat.
my distance conditioning should get better fast, i would assume.. im going to try and hit distance hard every other day for a while now..
peace man!

