The insanely cold weather and the snow we've been getting in the NYC area had me busy dealing with shoveling and looking for any areas of heat loss I might have missed in the fall winterization checkup. It's been almost 2 weeks since I last had time to run.
Legs sure didn't feel like it was 2 weeks though. Woke up pretty sore from all the things I've been doing.
Day 0
After week 7 didn't go as well as expected I wasn't sure what to do this morning. Since it had been so long since I just decided to ease myself back into it. I did the 5 minute warm up walk and then for 25 jog but take short breaks if I needed to. For the 5 minute cool down walk I decided to sprint the last 2 minutes. Not much of a cool down but was feeling bored.
I did 2.2 miles in 35 minutes including the warm-up/cool down and spent 11min 30sec in zone 3. I kept my heart rate below previous peaks except during the last 2 minutes of sprinting.
Whether I do the next scheduled run at week 6 day 1 again or another warm up run is up in the air.
Days ???
Instead of starting over with week 6's program I've been adapting the program myself. I've done a couple of runs that consist of three 10 minute running intervals surrounded by 5 minutes of walking. 45 minutes total and I'm covering about 2.8-3.0 miles
It's more running than I would have done if I stepped back to the week 6 schedule and I'm burning more calories which is important since I've been busy with the snow and bad weather. I might stick with this and just reduce the length of walking intervals between the running.
I tried to go out for a road run yesterday in my heated winter running jacket but the roads were icy and I was slipping and sliding all over the place. The treadmill is getting a bit boring.
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