Objective: VO2 max / Hill repeats : warm up, 5 x (.2 mi hill at maximum effort, 6-10% grade), moderate miles to finish. Conditions at 5 AM: 40F, partly cloudy with patches of thick fog, waning gibbous moon showing. 15 min. core & weights
My legs are still sore today from Sunday's run,. But I kept telling myself it wasn't about legs today, it was about oxygen. During the hill repeats I may have had gimpy form and no speed whatsoever, but as long as I was gasping for air I was doing well! lol I won't be doing a lot of these hill repeat workouts, partly because I get hill work every single day and I do hill sprints regularly, but also because they cut into my mileage so deeply. The slowest VO2 max workout imaginable, imo. On the bright side, my energy level was pretty good compared to yesterday. It's amazing what difference a day can make. I'm adding another race to the calendar: March 22, Mercer Island Half Marathon. My DH said, "why aren't you running it this year?" (I've run it a couple of times before.) I replied "Well, it doesn't really fit into my training schedule for Eugene..." But then I looked at the schedule and saw that I had a 15 mile run for that very day, followed by a cut-back week. So actually, it does fit! The cut back week will be a recovery week. I can use it as an intermediate goal, and as a time trial for my progress, though the course is hillier than Eugene by far.
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