Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Planned Intervals

On last weeks intervals I did 8 x 1 minte intervals so 8 minutes of hard effort, this week I'm changing to 2 minute intervals so at least 5 of them which gives 10 minutes of hard effort and a bit of progression from last week. If I feel good I will do 6 but that is a max.

So I think todays session is to be:

20 minute/2 mile warmup (Keep my heart rate down!)

5 (or 6 max) x 2 minutes with 1 jog minute recoveries

15/20 minute jog back to work (Get Heart Rate back down)

I want to build back up to 4 x 4 minutes as I was doing before I got into hilly runs.

7 comments:

  1. Sounds a good (and sensible) plan. My hard tuesday isn't happening after I was up at 5am with a sore knee, which still isn't right! So having a sensible day.

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  2. Oh no, a bit of rest sorted it out last time ?

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  3. I'm always going to have knee problems, left over from skiing. It's annoying at the moment as usually when I am fit I have less problems, but they playing up a bit at the moment. Hopefully it'll be fine again tomorrow.

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  4. It was a jump in your normal running speed so it was probably a big factor in them playing up again. Cycling is a lot more forgiving on the body! What kind of skiing did you do to bring on knee problems (I only fall off snowboards occasionally so got no idea about skiing)

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  5. I was a mogul skier

    http://www.mogulskiing.net/

    It is pretty hard on the knees.

    I now snowboard, it was my obssession before biking.

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  6. Ouchie for the knees! Before I moved down here and found biking my obsession was Tae Kwon Do, my only lasting damage amazingly was a broken front tooth. Had quite a few concussions and serious rib bruising, no permanent damage - probably.

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  7. I think cycling will last though as there so many different types of cycling to stop me getting bored!

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