Getting used to "easy"...
Wednesday 14/06/06:
Felt less tired at 5.45am this morning, after a decent nights sleep. Although I did stay up rather late last night, reading blogs and cruising the forums...
A rather chilly 4 degrees out this morning, cars lining the roadsides had white roofs and icy windscreens. However I stuck to my plan to run "easy" and have to say, I am getting more used to it. In the past I have always trained at the one pace of steady which for me means approx 5min kms (unless I was doing a specialist session, such as fartlek or hill reps, etc.) and I know this could have been contributing to my injuries. Anyway, as I had planned to run slower today anyway, I jogged right from the start rather than do my usual brisk walk warmup and cooldown. However I actually think brisk walking warms me up faster and today I could feel the chill seeping into my bones! Upside is that without the walking, doing the same route as yesterday gave me an exra km of distance, all be it at an easy pace:
Easy paced run: 41 mins (7kms)
Won't be making a habit of this however, must stick to what is working well, which for now is warming up and cooling down slowly, plenty of stretching and more easy paced runs.
Oh another thing is that its been a while since I've seen any other runners out on this route at this time of day, however today I saw lots! First, a group of 4 girls heading out in the opposite direction (shame they were on the other side of a main arterial road, or I might have joined them!) then 2 girls running a few hundred meters ahead of me at one point, but they soon turned off into a side road, then a man came running out of the next road, doing a cracking pace. Later on my way back towards home, two male runners came towards me with some cheery good mornings! Always lifts the spirits to see others out there, and I am one of those friendly runners who has a quick "hi" or "good morning" for everyone I pass!
Felt less tired at 5.45am this morning, after a decent nights sleep. Although I did stay up rather late last night, reading blogs and cruising the forums...
A rather chilly 4 degrees out this morning, cars lining the roadsides had white roofs and icy windscreens. However I stuck to my plan to run "easy" and have to say, I am getting more used to it. In the past I have always trained at the one pace of steady which for me means approx 5min kms (unless I was doing a specialist session, such as fartlek or hill reps, etc.) and I know this could have been contributing to my injuries. Anyway, as I had planned to run slower today anyway, I jogged right from the start rather than do my usual brisk walk warmup and cooldown. However I actually think brisk walking warms me up faster and today I could feel the chill seeping into my bones! Upside is that without the walking, doing the same route as yesterday gave me an exra km of distance, all be it at an easy pace:
Easy paced run: 41 mins (7kms)
Won't be making a habit of this however, must stick to what is working well, which for now is warming up and cooling down slowly, plenty of stretching and more easy paced runs.
Oh another thing is that its been a while since I've seen any other runners out on this route at this time of day, however today I saw lots! First, a group of 4 girls heading out in the opposite direction (shame they were on the other side of a main arterial road, or I might have joined them!) then 2 girls running a few hundred meters ahead of me at one point, but they soon turned off into a side road, then a man came running out of the next road, doing a cracking pace. Later on my way back towards home, two male runners came towards me with some cheery good mornings! Always lifts the spirits to see others out there, and I am one of those friendly runners who has a quick "hi" or "good morning" for everyone I pass!
posted by Vicky @ 6/14/2006 10:34:00 pm
1 Comments:
At Thu Jun 15, 07:24:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
It's nice to just do some easy runs every now and then. I'm like you in a way, probably run too many one pace type runs.
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