Weights for 45 minutes starting some core work and upper body. Great day in Kansas City at the gym with the sun pouring in the windows. Pretty cool to work out in a gym feeling like you are outside. Reminds me of muscle beach, CA.
Purpose today was intervals and getting a workout in with a heart rate monitor. 6.5 miles easy warmup and then 8X1 mile repeats. Using my Garmin 610 with the display on distance and HR. Resting rate right now is 45 so I feel I need to be consistant on intervals at 155-160bpm. The first two repeats ended up at 105 which was pretty low, but good to see that I just haven't been pushing it at all. Bumped up the effort and by the sixth one could peg them at 160. Stuck with a resting return of 100, which took just about exactly 2:30 to get back down to between repeats. I don't run much with HR monitors so it was good to check the effort I'm putting in and make some fine tuning, or really set a base level to start training from.
Starting a stretching program again after letting it go for the last year because of the new research last year that the advantage of it was minimal. I've been back at it for two weeks and can feel some definite improvement from starting again. I have my own ideas about stretching.. | 