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Wed, Apr 04, 2012

Total Distance

3.25

Strength trained my legs for about 20 minutes first thing today.

47 minutes spent on the elliptical, further wearing myself out.

A really bad session of 12x400's at the track. I felt sluggish and lacked pick up. Last Wednesday's session was better. I haven't slept enough the past 4 nights. That, I'm sure, has not helped the cause. As well as the horrible eating I've been doing too.

FAIL.

Comments

From Jake K on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:17:39 from 155.100.226.54

If I can offer one tip on the track work - if you get into the routine of doing the same workouts over and over again, there will be a tendency to compare week to week, and fitness gains don't happen that quickly. So mix up the workouts. 400s one week, 200s the next, maybe 600s or 800s another time. Or do a "ladder" - something like 2-2-4-4-8-4-4-2-2. You'll see better adaptations and improvements if you keep changing the stimulus.

From Carina on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:20:16 from 204.15.86.83

Love the advice Jake gave!!! You're doing so great with your training. Don't get discouraged :)

From Lily on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:22:11 from 67.199.178.210

Wella thanks for the suggestions. That is a good idea. So next week I will change it up.

Have you ever done more than one tack workout a week? I know it can be a bit risky at times doing that. I thought about pumping another one out later on this week. (sunday?)

From Kam on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:24:38 from 68.66.163.179

Horrible eating? Like Cadbury mini-eggs and peanut M&Ms?

From Jake K on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:26:33 from 155.100.226.54

yeah I have regularly but it depends on what the purpose is... like there have been times where i've done mile or 1K repeats on the track, and then come back later in the week and done some shorter (200m) stuff just for turnover.

if you are doing a longer run on saturday, though - i'd wait to hit the track again until monday, probably.

From allie on Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 15:44:23 from 97.126.222.108

you still did the workout and that counts for something! your training is great -- just mix things up as jake said and you will be loving the track again.

i hope you can get some more sleep this week.

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