Thursday, December 07, 2006
legs are tired
Today marks my first full week of training since mid october and my legs are tired. Sad part is this is just the beginning and I have 4 more months until AZ. I do enjoy this feeling at times so its actually not a bad thing.
Yesterday i got an core and upper body weight session in at lunch. Last night was a 60min ride of the trainer. I started and ended the main workout with one-legged drills (these drills really do help your pedal efficiency) and in the middle was a steady 35min tempo ride.
This morning was my long run of the week. I ran 80min/10miles (avg pace of 8:04). My goal today was to negative split the 2nd 40min (goal pace was 8min first half and 7:50 second half). The results are in and i ran 8:20 pace for the first half and 7:49 on the second. I thought i was running better in the first half but i guess not. However i do hit a majority of the obstacles in the first half (a cross 2 trafficy roads, i have 2 big uphills of 5-10min each, and its dark still so its tough to see my pace on my watch). I will continue to work on the negative splits in my long runs and report back. Run as a whole went well. The hammy was tender stil from my last tempo run but I felt strong near the end and had plenty left in the tank. Damn I love long runs!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday i got an core and upper body weight session in at lunch. Last night was a 60min ride of the trainer. I started and ended the main workout with one-legged drills (these drills really do help your pedal efficiency) and in the middle was a steady 35min tempo ride.
This morning was my long run of the week. I ran 80min/10miles (avg pace of 8:04). My goal today was to negative split the 2nd 40min (goal pace was 8min first half and 7:50 second half). The results are in and i ran 8:20 pace for the first half and 7:49 on the second. I thought i was running better in the first half but i guess not. However i do hit a majority of the obstacles in the first half (a cross 2 trafficy roads, i have 2 big uphills of 5-10min each, and its dark still so its tough to see my pace on my watch). I will continue to work on the negative splits in my long runs and report back. Run as a whole went well. The hammy was tender stil from my last tempo run but I felt strong near the end and had plenty left in the tank. Damn I love long runs!!!!!!!!!
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