Monday 5:30AM PWR cycle at #LifetimeFitness. I have backed off of my previous efforts somewhat and it has helped with issue in my right quad. I got sucked into competing against this tri-athlete 25 years younger than me since the power numbers are displayed in class. I could keep up with him, but at the cost of a slight injury. So I’ll back off and slowly build up. Today was all speed. Lots of furious pedaling.
Saturday morning easy run. No #parkrun today because I am sitting on 24 and I want #25 to be run at Kingston Park Cottage Grove (canceled this week), my home parkrun. I added an easy four lap run around the sub development at 155 spm.
I found out that I can run at this pace for a pretty long time. My goal is to stretch out easy runs at this pace to six or seven miles.
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Friday mid morning walk. I have had a weird sensation in my right quad, which I have alluded to. I don’t feel it when I am exercising, but when I stop, it tightens up and is quite sore. I took it easy on the bike today and I went on an easy walk. The quad is as good today as it has been in the last couple of weeks. Nice, easy workouts are a key I guess when I have some muscle aches.
Friday 5:30AM PWR cycling at #LifetimeFitness. I backed off on the intensity today because I have had some discomfort in my right groin. Still a pretty good workout, but not a full on effort. The result is that my heart rate only averaged 116 bpm. Since Saturday is #parkrun (although I am not running tomorrow), maybe a reduced effort on Friday would be a good idea.
Thursday night weightlifting. New routine from my trainer. Three of the seven lifts were things I had done before, but four new lifts. I have put down benchmarks that I can improve on! (in other words, I have work to do)
Wednesday morning run in my hometown. 3.36 miles in 32:20. I don’t want to say it’s flat there, but my elevation gain was zero feet (!!!) on Strava (2m on Apple).
Tuesday morning run. I did run/walk intervals of 13/2 minutes. Did exactly the same route last Tuesday. Then I did 2/10 walk/run intervals. Today 39:51. Last week 43:31. So 3:40 improvement. It was 13 degrees cooler today, which helped a lot. I was overheated last week.
Monday evening walk. Wanted an easy walk to get my legs moving. Beautiful evening for a walk. 16’20” pace. When I loaded this into Strava, it compared it to some walks I had done before I started my fitness program. I added that below.
The pace was almost the same. The route is very similar. In December I burned 701 calories and my average heart rate was 146. Tonight it was 361 calories and average heart rate was 89. Pretty amazing.
Monday 5:30AM cycling. I have found that this is the toughest cycling event of the week. Same this week. Interestingly, my Wed and Fri instructor was next to me in the class. She is amazingly fit and much younger than me. But I was generating more power (numbers are projected on the wall in real time) than her. I am much bigger than her though. Anyway that felt kind of good.
Sunday evening weightlifting workout A. Good workout, slight issue with right quad. Overall felt fine. This was almost a day off.