Well I'm pleased to say that since my last running post, which was two weeks ago, I've managed six runs, three a week, and I've kept to my Tue, Thurs and Sunday mornings routine.
I've been heading out at 6.30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays with a head torch, doing one of two routes, one rural/ cycle path, the other just around Hereford main streets really, which that early in the morning is fine because there's not much traffic.
Then on Sundays I do my proper rural route, there's a nice variety of paths and you can run up to probably 15K around that little slice of Hereford, very little traffic, no nasty boggy bits either, which can be an issue on longer routes around here.
Zone Training....
I've been focussing on going slow, which actually makes it much easier to get-up and out, psychologically... if I'm just going for a little trot, no worries, so whereas I used to do 5K in 23 minutes something, now I'll happily settle for 28 or 29.... lower heart rate, I think it's doing me some good, we'll see if I ever try going faster again!
Second to last week...
One fast run to start off, not sure what I was doing there! But then the other two slower....
Last week...
Nice and chill... although I managed the 10K faster pace than my previous week's 9K, well that is progress I guess!
Last Sunday's 10K
Here's the usual route....
The heart rate is a little artificially low as I stopped at one point to take a picture!
Happy with the charts...
I'm surprised to see so much in Zone 3, I had expected a 50-50 split between that and Zone four and at least 5% in Zone five....
Final thoughts...
I think I am getting fitter with all of this Zone training, I might hit the track tomorrow morning.
Will have to see how I feel!
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