Stepping up a gear

This week, in addition to the Monday run, I ran again on Wednesday and Saturday, as Friday became difficult for various reasons. Wednesday was another 11 repetitions of 1 minute running and 90 seconds walking, and I modified the route so that I ran it “backwards”. This was because I thought maybe facing the uphill bit first , then having a downhill middle section followed by a moderate uphill end might be better, as the uphill bits would be in 2 segments.

This turned out not to work too well, and I found the revised route much more difficult. However, I made it round OK with just lactic-acid ache and no strains. Mr Garmin had problems again getting signal lock, so when I post the times, they'll look odd.

When I got to the end, I couldn't imagine being able to step up to running two whole minutes with a minutes rest then repeated for 30 minutes. Madness.

Today's run however, was that step up in running time. I returned to the original basic route, tried to keep the pace down and repeated 11 times: two minutes running, one minute walking. And what I thought was madness on Wednesday turned out to be pretty much achievable. I'm doing 11 repeats because Mr Garmin doesn't count walking as part of the thing it times. You start with a running section and finish with a running section, so it's kind of 10 x (2 +1) +2 = 32 minutes training.

Quadratic equations next week :)

As I've posted before, I actually find the walking sections difficult because it seems to stress the already complaining muscles in a different way, but I'm not going to push the running time up quickly as I know my leg will go again if I do so.

So stepping up a gear has worked OK. I'll stick with 2 more sessions like this one before I increase the running segments to 3 minutes.

Mr Stumble.