Interval Training

Probably a bit of a daft idea - doing intervals the day after a PB for the year 10k race. Ah well - it was only intended to be a gentle work out in the nirvanas. 20 mins max, after the success of the 10 minute sesh the other day.

Anyway - I decided to wear the Garmin, for no other reason than to track the heart rate. Distance would be...well - zero hopefully, but it would be interesting to see how HR varied.

The plan was just to do a couple of mins warm up at gentler speeds and then do 20 mins solid at 12kph. Trouble is, it gets boring. Like - really boring! So what did I do - I pu the speed up to 14 kph for a minute and then did 2 mins at 12kph again. Basically an interval session, although not as tough as the two mins at 14 I did a while back. Here's the graph - it starts 30 seconds or so before I turned the pace up to 12kph.

Not bad, all things considered - and I did get some recovery each time - but was generally going up a few bpm every interval - so HR at pace was higher and so was recovery - hence the general upwards trend.

I did get a bit of pressure under my right big toe - but then I had that before. This did tend to ease off a bit as I ran - maybe I was getting used to the shoes.

Afterwards - I had niggles, but then I had some from the 10k the day before. PLus I think it would be unfair to blame new shoes for niggles - given that I had various bits probably weakened from the 10k, my muscles may well have put stress elsewhere. Plus I think new shoes do often feel a bit like that - not that they're wrong, but the body is a tad uncomfortable while it gets used to the slightly different movement.

Wednesday - and I'm going to have another crack on the tready after body pump - just hope we don't do lunges, which always knacker my calfs. These do seem to be a bit of a weak point for me (calfs I mean)