Polar HRM Data:
Time In Zone: 00:26:31
Average HR: 142
Max HR: 174
KCalories: 771 (40% from fat)
Nike + iPod Data:
Total time: 00:45:03
Distance: 4.49KM
Pace: 10:01/KM
Calories: 504
Difficult workout - the first one back after Freeman’s passing. My heart rate was already quite high when I went into my first split, and I soon discovered that I really did feel like absolute crap. I hadn’t really hydrated all day, and needless to say, my diet has been crap for the past week or so. Despite these little setbacks, or perhaps in spite of, my mind decided to teach the rest of me a lesson, and I turned this evening’s run workout into a negative split training session - running the second half of my workout at a faster pace than the first half. I started with 4.7 on my first three splits, then did 5.0, 5.2, and finished with 5.4. I then cheated and did a final split at 4.7 as part of my ‘cooldown’ just cause I wanted to get close to running a 5k. There was a bit of discomfort - a ‘tweak’ - in my right hip flexor on split 6, but I whacked it out with about 10 minutes of intense stretching afterwards, including some modified Pigeon Poses and a bit of yoga to open up my hips.
The moral of this story? Proving once again that John Malone is totally correct when he tells me ‘as the mind goes, so goes the body’. Really, once I made up my mind not to pack it in, the body just humbly submitted and it turned into a good session.
I really needed this tonight.
Filed under: Free Swag, Running, Triathlon training, overcoming adversity
