Monday, May 4, 2020

Training log - Week ending 5/3/2020

This week was 65 miles of running and 10 miles walking -- training log is here.

Nothing really exciting this week, just more of the same routine.  I did have one interesting technology blooper.  


I've been using a footpod to measure my distance and pace when running on the treadmill - trusting it over the treadmill's speed report.  However, I've noted that the differential between treadmill pace and foot pod pace kept growing.  At first the footpod claimed I was 3 seconds slower than the treadmill, then 7, and then a whopping 15 seconds differential - 8:57 pace on the treadmill reading as 9:12 on the footpod.  But the treadmill didn't feel any different....

So...I did a little checking, and noted that my foodpod was set to "auto-calibrate" - meaning it checked the pace it was reporting against GPS.  And since I don't go anywhere when I run on the treadmill, the result was that my footpod kept recalibrating to slower and slower....

So... I turned off auto-calibrate and reset it halfway through Friday's run.  We'll see if it behaves itself this week...


Dailies

Monday:  5 mile walk and upperbody weights/core.  Foam rolling at night.

Tuesday: 14 miles, split as 6.5 on the treadmill, including 2 short hill repeats and 8 minutes at tempo pace before the treadmill shut down.  So I relocated outside for 7.5 more miles plus 4 more short hill repeats.  Followed with injury prevention work.  Foam rolling at night.

Wednesday: 8 miles easy on the treadmill (9:04), live streaming yoga, 4.5 miles easy on the treadmill (8:54).  Foam rolling at night.

Thursday: Upper body weights/core and 5 mile walk. Foam rolling at night.

Friday:  12.5 miles on the treadmill, including an imitation Iwo Jima workout - 8 repeats of the following:

-2:00 at a strong effort on a 3.0 incline (the Iwo Jima hill averages a 3% incline)
-1:30 easy effort on a 0.5 incline
-0:30 fast on a 0.5 incline
-1:00 easy effort on a 0.5 incline.

Followed with leg strengthwork and recovery yogaFoam rolling at night.

Saturday: 10.5 miles very easy (9:02), drills and four hill strides, and live streaming yoga. Later did upper body weights/core. Foam rolling at night.

Sunday: 15.5 miles, including 14 miles progression (split as first 4 averaging 8:43, next 4 averaging 7:36, next 6 averaging 6:43) and a 1.5 mile cooldown.  Followed with leg strengthwork and streaming yoga. Foam rolling at night.



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