Well, first two weeks of official scheduled training behind me... felt pretty good... except for the running part : ). In all seriousness, times for my runs are right where I want them to be and I have, for the most part, stayed injury free. My weight is hovering right around 175, which is a plus. I think I am keeping more weight on this year because I have been really focusing on trying to incorporate weight training into the running schedule. Just took my blood pressure and heart rate.
Blood pressure was 126/58
Heart rate was 49 BPM
My resting heart rate has definitely come down since I have started running. The top number on my blood pressure seems to be remaining high (not coming down like the bottom number).
I have learned that putting two sprint days in a row for my workouts is not a good idea. This past week was pretty tough with the faster pace, lower mileage, although I was really pumped; I ran 2.8 miles at a sub 7 minute mile pace. I do not think I have ever been able to do that in my life. I am looking forward to this coming week, with a slower pace longer mileage that I will end with a 9 to 10 mile run on Saturday. Overall mileage will be around 19 or 20 miles for the week. Hopefully, I will be able to hit between a 8:00-8:30 pace for the long run on Saturday.
Still working in crossfit workouts whenever I can. Tweaked my shoulder a little bit doing pull-ups. Trying to give that a little time to recover.
I hope everyone else's training is going well. I plan to pin down races and get signed up by the end of this week, so Brett and Jordan, expect e-mails/phone calls.
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Birch,
ReplyDeleteThat is great. I have been trying to get back into the long run and some shorter faster runs as well.
Twice I did only about 20 mins of trying to run at a sub 7 pace, which always leaves me exhausted.
Saturday I got in an hour run, which felt great to do, but was beat afterwards. I thought I might puke, because I am an idiot and started my run around 11:15 am.
Jen and I have bought our plane tickets, and will be putting our arrival times and departures up soon. We bought them early bc Jen had a vouchure that needed to be used or we lost it.