Weekly Training Ramblings

Week two of training COMPLETE!

Sleepy Sun

This was a HARD week. It didn't focus so much on the main three workouts and instead threw two sessions of strength training at me. As I said in my previous post, I decided to try Crossfit for my first strength session and it destroyed me... and that pretty much set the tone for the rest of the week.

Week 2 Training:

So Many Things!

(Note: This doesn't show the strength workouts I did, I don't track those in any way.)

Despite Crossfits best efforts to stop me, I managed to get my remaining workouts in... although my Wednesday run was comically pathetic. My left glute was particularly sore which caused me to have a bit of a hitch in my stride and I was very slow so I threw my form out the window and just sort of shambled my way down the road for five miles.

So, other than discovering that Crossfit only exists to make everything huge hurt (WTH? I was rereading this and noticed I wrote huge instead of hurt... no idea. BUT it made me laugh a lot so I'm keeping it in here), what was my main take-away from this week? Training by heart rate is HARD when you do it right. I finally got my heart rate zones set up correctly on my 920xt so I tried them out on my 12 mile Sunday run. At first my HR was sky high because I was mad at technology. I couldn't get my route loaded on my watch and then I couldn't get a good enough signal to get my workout to load on my phone. I finally said screw it and got running. I was to run 1 mile in Zone 1 (HR: 127), 10.5 miles in Zone 2 (HR: 138), and back to Zone 1 for a half mile.

Do you know how slow I need to run to maintain those heart rates? I was basically walking to keep it under 127. Zone 2 had me running at a high 11 minute mile. Keeping your form up at those paces is not a simple task. I must say, I am quite proud of myself for *mostly* keeping my heart rate in zone for the entire run without losing my mind.

Now, even though I complain about how slow my run seemed going by heart rate, I know it is the way to go. You gotta start slow and work your way up. I understand this and I'll keep at it even though my legs want to go a little bit faster. I know it is what's best in the long run. Haha. I made a running joke.

... and with that, another week is done!