Speed Workout Night

Tonight I was off to the track for more zone 5 work. Its definitely hard stuff, so it’s nice to be done.

Tonight I did 5 x 2 minutes with up to 4 minutes in between. I would have liked if the times would have been a little closer together. For the 1st set I really went hard right from the start. The other sets were more evenly paced. I think for the next round I’ll try a little more like this 1st set as I think it gets my heart rate up better to where its supposed to be for this workout.

During the 4^th set I was getting a bit of stitch. This slowed the middle of this set down as I couldn’t push quite as hard.

Tonight I also did 5 sets instead of the 4 that I did 2 weeks ago. The 5^th set was a good effort.

All in all the times are comparable to the last track workout. One key difference tonight for me was that I didn’t feel that my legs were really fresh. 65 minutes last night on the treadmill in my new zone 1 probably took some of the edge of my legs. Judging by the amount of sweat (warning: don’t picture this) around the treadmill I’d say I worked hard last night.

One other thought crossed my mind as I ran tonight. My running was not particularly smooth. Some days you just seam to flow; tonight, I felt more like Rocky Balboa, not too pretty but getting the job done.

Weight was done to 191.0 this morning. Good number but I was a bit dehydrated this morning.

Tomorrow should be a nice run. Looking forward to it.

Here are my results:-

Set	Time	Distance (m)	Avg Pace (min/km)	Avg Speed (km/h)	Avg HR1	Max HR1
1	2:04	615.71	3:22	17.8
2	2:07	582.42	3:38	16.5
3	2:13	620.10	3:34	16.8
4	2:04	557.57	3:43	16.12
5	2:02	556.00	3:39	16.4

¹ HR monitor didn't kick-in; no time to stop and get it going.

² Had a stitch in the side for a about 1/3 of this set.