# Heart Beat, Why Do You... #
Right - possibly the final try-out sesh for the new shoes, and I'm all set to do 30 minutes on the tready. I wore a cheapo HRM as that way the tready wil pick it up, rather than the coded Garmin mallarkey, although I must try hitting the "lap" button on that as each interval starts (like I haven't got my hands busy anyway!)
Anyway - started off at 10kph, and right away my HR hit 160! What gives?? It doesn't normally get up to that until quite a while in, even if I run at well over 12kph. Odd! Maybe I was ill. I decided to put the speed up to 12kph and see what happened. The HR stayed the same, which was definitely weird. And then it dropped - to upper 150s, lower 150s, and then to 145-148bpm. Where it stayed for about ten minutes, still at 12kph, and drifted up slowly over th enext ten minutes. After that, My right forefoot was burning a little, but I seemed to recall that that wore off last time. Time to up the pace!
I actually held back a little from the Creation session - I did 2 mins at 14kph and then 3 mins recovery rather than 2 (at 12kph), but it was still a good workout. A couple of intervals in and my legs had acclimatised to the speed. All went well, and I didn't have to drop the recovery speed at all.
All in all a good session - got a few twinges afterwards around my ankles, but the shoes are different from the kayanos, the pounding is very even ona tready, so hopefully nowt to worry about.
Evening - and I'm tempted to go down the club as I do feel reasonably fresh! Would eb good to see everyone, and I do want to get back into the social side of things and have people to run with. Shame I couldn't have done this run yesterday. Legs are up to the run but I guess I shouldn't overdo it.
Tomorrow is trying out the wettie in the swimming pool (I shall feel a right prune) and then off for a bike ride with Greenie - should be good, and I suspect cake will be involved at some stage!
UCAS News
Well the good news is that I have acknowledgement of my application, so things are underway. I have to wait now for interview dates and stuff. I have a day at St Helier's lined up for next week, so hopefully more to talk about there. Must chase the other places up too.
Study is going pretty well - although some of module four is a bit tougher, and I do need to review it. I got some homeowrk back (old exam questions) last night that I'd thought I'd done well on, although I did use the book in places, but I'd missed out some crucial points on the longer answer questions and scored 60% overall - which isn't good enough. Okay - hopefully coursework and stuff will help drag me up, but I need to do better than that. I may get a B offer, but I really want that A now. I need to plan a regular study timetable.
Life without work is gettign a bit too unstructured - too much faffing and not getting stuff done. It's great to have the freedom, but too much freedom takes away the urgency! I still seem to be lacking drive a bit - it's easier to put stuff off than get my head down and do it. Not sure why because to all intents and purposes I'm very much enjoying the course.
Anyway - started off at 10kph, and right away my HR hit 160! What gives?? It doesn't normally get up to that until quite a while in, even if I run at well over 12kph. Odd! Maybe I was ill. I decided to put the speed up to 12kph and see what happened. The HR stayed the same, which was definitely weird. And then it dropped - to upper 150s, lower 150s, and then to 145-148bpm. Where it stayed for about ten minutes, still at 12kph, and drifted up slowly over th enext ten minutes. After that, My right forefoot was burning a little, but I seemed to recall that that wore off last time. Time to up the pace!
I actually held back a little from the Creation session - I did 2 mins at 14kph and then 3 mins recovery rather than 2 (at 12kph), but it was still a good workout. A couple of intervals in and my legs had acclimatised to the speed. All went well, and I didn't have to drop the recovery speed at all.
All in all a good session - got a few twinges afterwards around my ankles, but the shoes are different from the kayanos, the pounding is very even ona tready, so hopefully nowt to worry about.
Evening - and I'm tempted to go down the club as I do feel reasonably fresh! Would eb good to see everyone, and I do want to get back into the social side of things and have people to run with. Shame I couldn't have done this run yesterday. Legs are up to the run but I guess I shouldn't overdo it.
Tomorrow is trying out the wettie in the swimming pool (I shall feel a right prune) and then off for a bike ride with Greenie - should be good, and I suspect cake will be involved at some stage!
UCAS News
Well the good news is that I have acknowledgement of my application, so things are underway. I have to wait now for interview dates and stuff. I have a day at St Helier's lined up for next week, so hopefully more to talk about there. Must chase the other places up too.
Study is going pretty well - although some of module four is a bit tougher, and I do need to review it. I got some homeowrk back (old exam questions) last night that I'd thought I'd done well on, although I did use the book in places, but I'd missed out some crucial points on the longer answer questions and scored 60% overall - which isn't good enough. Okay - hopefully coursework and stuff will help drag me up, but I need to do better than that. I may get a B offer, but I really want that A now. I need to plan a regular study timetable.
Life without work is gettign a bit too unstructured - too much faffing and not getting stuff done. It's great to have the freedom, but too much freedom takes away the urgency! I still seem to be lacking drive a bit - it's easier to put stuff off than get my head down and do it. Not sure why because to all intents and purposes I'm very much enjoying the course.
posted by XFR Bear @ 6:42 pm
2 Comments:
You will still be in "wind down " from work
It is hard
even if you werent a traumatised wreck on leaving work like i was
Maybe a timetable might help?
oh, and try a parp or burp next time you have on the HRM
Interesting drops in HR that causes
Try to think of study as the 'work' and fit the training around it. And do a timetable. And a training plan ;o)
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