File this workout under Decent Tests of Mental Toughness. This was a fun one. One hour on a "hilly" dreadmill course without socks. I got to the gym at about 4 pm today, pulled out my gym clothes and started getting dressed only to realize I had forgotten to pack my running socks. I could have blown off the workout, but I figured that I really need to be doing my running workouts. Running is my biggest limiter, and I really want to improve my marathon time at Ironman Wisconsin this next year. I now have a few raw spots on my feet, though. Probably should have cut this one short.
As you can see from the graph, this was not an extremely difficult workout. Rich's Off Season Ironman Plan, which I'm follwoing until I begin my marathon-focused training calls for a 1 hour hilly run in which you spend time in several effort zones. I think this one would typically call for a little bit of really tough running (HR Zone 5), but I did not reach that kind of effort. The highest I went was into about mid-Zone 4, which corresponds roughly to a lower L4 effort on the scale I use. The graph is rather "wavy" indicating that I was constantly changing my effort up or down depending on whether I was "hill climbing" or not.
As you can see, the overall trend of the graph is toward a higher heart rate at the end of the run. Part of that is heart rate drift, which typically causes the HR to rise slightly as duration increases. But I think that another indication is that my run endurance is a little low right now (not surprising). The longer the duration, the higher my effort needs to be to maintain the pace set by the treadmill. If this had been an outdoor run, I likely would have run a shorter distance and slowed down over the duration instead of showing a much higher effort.
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