Sasha introduced me to the blog several years ago and for the longest time I've really enjoyed reading the blogs and race reports of several of you fabulous Utah runners out there. But to this point, I haven't done so much as a lick of my own tracking/blogging. Admittedly, I've historically done a very poor job of tracking my own workouts and miles. So, being the New Year, I figure what better time to make a resolution and and see if I can start doing a better job. Afterall, measurement is supposed to lead to improvement, right? I figure that using this sort of public forum will help keep me a little more honest and regular as opposed to if I were just keeping a private log.
For anyone who cares to look at my posts, I'm warning you that they're going to be quite boring. Especially these first several months while I'm particularly busy with work (CPA). I'm a fairly unsophisticated, run according to feel-type runner. I aim for 6 morning runs a week (rest Sundays) and prefer to stick to my handful of bread-and-butter workouts and follow a general pattern of alternating treadmill days with outside days. So here it goes...
AM - 50 minute treadmill run at the Life Centre. Still on holiday from work today so I slept in and got to the gym later than usual. Could hardly find a parking spot because of all the resolutioners and (not to my surprise) one of them was on my favorite treadmill when I first walked in. Did a few slow laps around the track to warm-up, then some stretching, and did a set on the Gravitron. Didn't have to wait too long for my mill to open up. Workout went as shown below (easier to show this way rather than in paragraph-form):
- First 5 minutes at 9.5 mph, 0 incline
- Next 5 mins at 10 mph, 0 incline
- Next 20 mins at 10 mph with progressive incline (first 3 mins at 1.0 incline, next 3 mins at 1.5, next 3 at 2.0, 3 at 2.5, 3 at 3.0, and 5 minutes at 3.5)
- At 30 minutes into the workout, back do to 0 incline, still 10 mph
- At 35 minutes, up to 10.5 mph, still 0 incline
- At 45 minutes, went to 11 mph, 0 incline, to finish things off.
5:55 average pace
After some cool down, did another set on the Gravitron, then some lunges and stretching, and then called it a day.
I like this workout because it has a good little mix of incline and then some faster running toward the end. Its definitely enough to get the heart pumping and a good sweat going. Hardest part is at about minutes 27-30 while at the 3.5 incline. I usually start feeling it pretty good about then. Sometimes I'll chicken-out at about this point and backdown, but I was able to stick it today which makes me feel good for this time of year. I like to think that this run helps my mental ability to tackle hills. | 