If I only blog about races, I'm not going to post very often.
I love to hear about races but I love to hear about people's every day running too.
So even if you don't think it is interesting, I would love to hear it!
So I'm posting about this stuff, and I hope I'm not boring anyone too bad.
I figure like Cynthia said once when we were talking about worrying that our posts were too long, "No one has to read it."
So, on my 1st training session for this week it was supposed to be a 50 minute run.
If you don't remember last week when I tried to do 40 straight minutes I got muscle gridlock and had to walk for awhile.
I really didn't want that to happen this time.
I tried to figure out what I'd done wrong.
I wondered if this program which has been mostly intervals has made it harder for me to run continuously?
When I would run on my own without a training program I would always just run continuously.
And now after almost 3 months of training I couldn't do it?,
when I used to just go from nothing to running for long times within a short period of time. (Stupidly, I know.)
What I had done differently though I realized was when I knew I was going to go for a certain distance I would just pick a pace I knew I could maintain. On the other hand, when I had tried to do the 40 minutes last week, I had tried to start out at a pace I wanted to maintain! But a pace too fast for me to maintain!
So on Tuesday I picked a very comfortable pace and tried not to look at my Garmin and get discouraged about how slow it was. After a short time I couldn't resist looking, and sure enough it was slower than I wished it to be. BUT, I was able to maintain it the 50 minutes. And that was a good feeling!
