AM-Thanks everybody for your congrats, that was really nice. Everything is going well. Mom and baby are doing really well and I am doing extremely well!
Got up early today and went for an AT run to Draper township and back. Started out at a quick but comfortable pace and after a mile began to really push the pace going down 7th east. 3x10 minutes at 10k-5k pace with 2 min in between at a good clip. This is one nasty but effective workout because the pace is faster than a standard tempo run but with slower breakups so that you don't build up too much lactic acid and defeat the purpose of the workout. Newer research says that the production of lactic acid actually fuels the muscles and prevents fatigue, to a point. In fact it's said now that there is no such thing as a threshold, only various proportions of aerobic and anaerobic energy production. This may be old news for some of you and if you want, feel free to elaborate on this subject with what you know. This newer research contradicts in a sense what I was taught about the cardiovascular model. But then again maybe not... Maybe the effect of LT running is not just to buffer but also enable the muscles to produce more power by consuming more and more lactate at higher intensity levels. Kind of like supercharging a car I suppose. I'm not sure because I'm not a scientist, but I believe the most optimal way now to achieve a high end steady state is to workout at the 10k intensity for as long as possible with short rest intervals between. But only after a solid phase of aerobic training however. Just a hunch I have after experimenting with various methods and patterns of training for a long time. After you have been at this for a while you get a pretty good sense of what is working and what isn't. Again, only more time will tell though. Slow cooldown afterwards. Light stretching and drills for 15 min. | 