This was a rather uneventful workout... just 30 minutes on the treadmill at Endurance (L2) effort, with no hills or intervals. The graph at the left shows a very consistent effort over the 30 minute course. I chose to do a short "endurance" workout because I pushed a little on the bike this morning, and I wanted this to be a low level effort, so that I don't push myself too hard. In addition, I've barely run since I decided to bag the Denver Marathon, so I'm keeping the sessions fairly short and very low intensity in order to rebuild run fitness and recover well. As the weeks and months progress, I'll steadily increase the intensity and then the volume so that I'm ready to start marathon training in January for the Colfax Marathon in May.
That's a nice segue into another point about the training program. To make it more fun, and to promote my "training blocks" approach, I've added two running races into a 5 month "run focus" block to try to improve my running using "crash cycles." I'm planning to do both the Platte River Trail Half Marathon and the Colfax Marathon as benchmarks for run training. Hopefully, after 5 months of run focus training, I can then maintain most of that run fitness through June, July and August while I focus on adding a much larger volume of bike training and increase my swimming volume as well.
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