Every Run is a Great Run!

10 minutes bike, 30 minutes stairclimber, 50 minutes elliptical. HR seemed about 5-10 beats higher than normal for the effort I was putting in. Maybe because I did my workout earlier than usual and I was competing with my digestive system still working on my big breakfast?

Ave/Max HR: 153/166.

Similar to yesterday. Ave/Max HR: 145/162.

Warmup: 10 minutes on exercise bike, 20 on stairclimber, 20 on elliptical.

Then did a repeat of 5K elliptical "race" workout like I did a couple of weeks ago. Was hoping to beat my time from before (18:40) and was successful, cutting off 5 seconds.

5K time: 18:35 (Ave pace - 5:59, but probably equivalent to 6:20-6:30 running pace effort).

Ave/Max HR: 153/199

Similar to Mon/Tues. Also went to the PT this morning and did core stuff. I've been doing the core work pretty diligently usually 3 times a week.

Warmup: 20 minutes bike, 40 minutes stairclimber, 10 minutes elliptical.

Then tried to do a simulated marathon pace workout on elliptical for just over an hour, roughly equivalent to 9 miles running? Tried to keep HR in the 170-190 range which I think is probably close to where I'm at during a marathon.

Ave/Max HR during tempo: 179/191.

Cooldown: 20 minutes on stairclimber. Ended up 155 minutes of workout, probably just shy of 20 miles running so we'll call it 19.5.

Hope I can endure one more week of total crosstraining, then in December I hope to attempt some easy run miles on 3-4 days of the week, starting with 1-2 miles.