This was my first run in almost 3 weeks. Work and the birth of my twins conspired to keep me off the dreadmill (pun intended) and the streets. This was supposed to be a very hard effort spanning an hour and over a mix of hill grades and heart rate efforts. However, I was not feeling strong, and I really didn't want to push myself too hard. I'd already missed my Tuesday run because of work, and I just didn't think the first workout back should be too hard. So, I cut it back to 30 minutes and did not push too hard into the L3-L4 zones.
This is a graph of the run heart rate data. Not particularly interesting. The treadmill course was set to "Random" because the workout called for hitting several heart rates over a variety of hill grades. The general "wavy-ness" of the graph shows you the variety of grades. Where the slope of the line goes negative, I was on a flat to very low grade. Where the slope goes positive, my HR was climbing because I was doing more work going uphill.
Tomorrow is my first bike ride in a while... assuming the twins are kind enough to let me sleep most of the night. I'm anticipating a noticeable loss of fitness during that ride.
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