November 3rd, Friday
After a few light days I did a pretty aggressive workout on the track this afternoon. I wanted to do a longer workout but stay on the friendly track service. I decided upon 8 x 400m at a comfortable 9:00 pace with a 2:00 recovery to keep my heart rate up throughout. I did all my leg and core drills beforehand and ran a couple of pickups in the course of about a mile warmup. The 400s were quite a bit faster than I planned even though I was comfortable running the entire workout. Each repetition seemed easier, even as I tried to keep a modest pace.
Paces- 8:11, 8:18, 7:52, 7:48, 7:38, 7:44, 7:49, 7:02 !!!
Stats-
a.m.HR = 54 bpm
Weight = #154
Sleep = 9 hours
Diet = 8
Foot indexes =
Left foot – plantar fasciitis in the AM is about seven or eight who are the first 10 steps. Not painful while running or throughout the day.
Right foot – Achilles tendon is starting to grumble. Also does not hurt while running, but I have to be careful to do a good warm-up and not push it. That is exactly why I was trying to run 9:00 today and no faster. The fact that I did run faster than 9:00 ……. will have to find out the result in the morning