Sorry about the earlier essay!
This afternoon I decided, as it was cooler, to do my speed work seeing as tomorrow will get hotter again! So as a warm up I jogged to school and walked back at Gnome pace (total 15-20 mins)
Then on the tready for 8 sets of 3R @9Kmph and 2 walk @4kmph. The 9kmph is getting easier - yippee but by set 6 it was less easy! 7 was hard and the final one saw me concerntrating to stay at the front of the tready and not wander of the sides or slow down and fall off the back!
HR was again recovering at the same pace as the weekend and topped at 193 in the last 2 sets which is good!
Also today the postman bought me a NHS letter. A couple of weeks ago I saw the Dr and mentioned about my stress fracture and bone density. She said she wasn't overally worried but would check the referal guidelines and if that was a no and if I was still worried we could get BUPA to do a scan after August when my new year starts budget wise. Today's letter says I have an appointment on Tuesday 5th July @12Pm at Derby General Hospital. I'm assuming that someone cancelled to get an appointment so quickly rather than there being anything to worry about, still it's nice to have my mind cleared as such!
Oh and one other thing. Saturday I got my fitness report back from the college. My hip:waist ration is normal, BP normal, RHR is good (but my actual morning RHR is 5 beats below excellent and what would be expected for an endurance athlete!). It's just my BMI and grip strength (that is suposed to represent overall body strength!?!) that let me down!
Since that time though I have now lost 6lb and I am now my pre-FLM stress eating and pre injury weight. So now for negotiations to begin with the 5lb that have taken up residency since we moved to the midlands, they me seem to think they now have squaters rights but they don't! Once they've gone it's time to battle those stubborn pounds that have been with me for 8 years!!
Still lets hope that with the new Spans Plan and the better eating these will soon be history soon and my speed and running will improve vastly!
Really looking forward to slaughtering some PB's over the next year or so!!
This afternoon I decided, as it was cooler, to do my speed work seeing as tomorrow will get hotter again! So as a warm up I jogged to school and walked back at Gnome pace (total 15-20 mins)
Then on the tready for 8 sets of 3R @9Kmph and 2 walk @4kmph. The 9kmph is getting easier - yippee but by set 6 it was less easy! 7 was hard and the final one saw me concerntrating to stay at the front of the tready and not wander of the sides or slow down and fall off the back!
HR was again recovering at the same pace as the weekend and topped at 193 in the last 2 sets which is good!
Also today the postman bought me a NHS letter. A couple of weeks ago I saw the Dr and mentioned about my stress fracture and bone density. She said she wasn't overally worried but would check the referal guidelines and if that was a no and if I was still worried we could get BUPA to do a scan after August when my new year starts budget wise. Today's letter says I have an appointment on Tuesday 5th July @12Pm at Derby General Hospital. I'm assuming that someone cancelled to get an appointment so quickly rather than there being anything to worry about, still it's nice to have my mind cleared as such!
Oh and one other thing. Saturday I got my fitness report back from the college. My hip:waist ration is normal, BP normal, RHR is good (but my actual morning RHR is 5 beats below excellent and what would be expected for an endurance athlete!). It's just my BMI and grip strength (that is suposed to represent overall body strength!?!) that let me down!
Since that time though I have now lost 6lb and I am now my pre-FLM stress eating and pre injury weight. So now for negotiations to begin with the 5lb that have taken up residency since we moved to the midlands, they me seem to think they now have squaters rights but they don't! Once they've gone it's time to battle those stubborn pounds that have been with me for 8 years!!
Still lets hope that with the new Spans Plan and the better eating these will soon be history soon and my speed and running will improve vastly!
Really looking forward to slaughtering some PB's over the next year or so!!
Comments
good news on the scan too!
Keep on going.
personally I've always found with intervals that even if the first few are easy, the end ones get tougher.
When those get easy it's time to either:
1) increase the speed of the fast bits
2) increase the speed of the recoveries
3) reduce the time of the recoveries
i.e. in all cases make it tougher - if it's easy it's not helping you progress :o)