A Lean and Hungry Look

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Won Park City Marathon (tiny field, slow course, no purse) and Utah Grand Slam in 2006

Marathon: 2:37:04 (St. George 2009)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train for as solid a race in Boston 2011 as my schedule will allow. Accept the fact that there isn't room in my life to train for a breakthrough performance and do the best I can under the circumstances.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Lose the all-or-nothing mentality and start using running as an outlet instead of an additional source of stress.

Personal:

I'm married with 4 kids (2 boys, 2 girls) and live in Salt Lake City, where I work as a real estate attorney.

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

"Julius Caesar," Act I, scene 2, 190-95

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Tue, Jul 28, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
4.79	0.00	3.77	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.56

Plan was to do 10x3-min intervals with target HR of 178 and recovery jog of either 1 minute or until HR dropped to 130, whichever was later. Unfortunately, it took forever for my heart to recover to that level, so the recovery jogs took far longer than expected and I ran out of time and had to cut my workout short. I did the workout at Sugarhouse Park.

2-mile warmup around outer loop

1: AHR 165/MHR 177 (5:21/mi)

Recovery jog of 6:21 (are you kidding?)

2: AHR 169/MHR 181 (5:26/mi)

Recovery jog of 5:56

3: AHR 172/MHR 179 (5:17/mi)

Recovery jog of 5:38

4: AHR 171/MHR 181 (5:39/mi)

Recovery jog of 2:34 (no idea why it got so much shorter)

5: AHR 171/MHR 181 (5:45/mi)

Don't know how long recovery jog took--had to restart workout on Garmin

6: AHR 173/MHR 180 (5:44/mi)

Recovery jog of 2:18

7: AHR 174/182

Recovery jog of 4:20 and HR was still around 140

I don't know what to make of this workout. I think the faster intervals, in addition to being at the beginning of my workout, included only 1 of the Sugarhouse hills, while the slower ones included both, which may explain the wide variation in pace. I have no idea why it was taking my heart so much longer to recover during the early intervals (and again after number 7) than on 4-6. I should note that the Garmin does not display HR when in interval mode (I forgot to set a target HR when I programmed the workout), so I was guessing except on the recovery portion, where it displayed how far above my target I was. It seemed like I was able to get down to around 140 bpm within a reasonable amount of time, but the drop from 140 to 130 took a long time. Maybe it would make sense to make 140 the threshold for starting the next interval. Finally, I was tired after the workout but not nearly as tired as I would have expected. Since I only did 7 repeats and not 10 and since I had tons of recovery in the early part of the set, that was not surprising.

DS Trainer Miles: 8.56

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Ashbaker on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:42:47 from 65.100.192.2

I like the way you did your session basing recovery by hr recovery. Makes more sense than a lot of workouts I have seen on this blog including my own at times. I wonder if the reason for your extended recovery period at the beginning is just for the reason you have not made a complete shift into aerobic metabolism. Could this be it?

From Jed on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:39:16 from 207.173.78.2

Since I did seem to settle in later with more reasonable recovery times, that may be it. Thanks for the idea. I'm going to start using 140 as the threshold instead, though, since I think my HR is just naturally high when I run and 130 is unrealistic for me.

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