5.25 mile jog! Today we were slightly slow and averaged 12 minutes miles. Not like we were much faster than that but we were in the past by almost 2 minutes.
PM:
35 min elliptical machine
Tomorrow will be something new. we are adding a run day to the week. It going to be a butchered and bastardized version of High Intensity Interval Training. I gave my wife a link to see what HIIT training should be, and I gave her another option for us to just jog a short 1 to 1.5 miles at a fast pace. She has decided she does not want to do either and wants ut to jog with intervals of going faster. Sounds great in theory but we do that now on our long runs. The idea of the intervals is that they are supposed to be a set distance or time and you sprint all out for the interval followed buy a rest period or walking period. Jogging as the rest means we will not be going all out on the running interval part. It also means as we jog through the neighborhood we will not be doing the same distance OR time of the intervals. We are going to be missing out on the whole part of what she originally wanted us to do. I am going to go along for the ride on this one. We run at different speeds and sprint at different speeds. the idea of a set interval on a side street would allow us each to go our best and be in sight of each other the whole time. Now as she jogs faster than me her “resting jog pace will be much faster than mine and will need to wait for me to catch up, and my sprinting pace is faster than hers so depending on when we are actually sprinting I could be in the lead.
The most important thing we need to focus on is actually getting to jogging 10 miles in a session. She wants to focus on getting faster. Hey I want to be faster, but to me it is more important to be able to jog the 10 mile distance. I don’t see this slow/fast jog getting me there faster. I could be wrong. What I do know is it is over 12 hours since our run this morning and I need more Advil for the soreness in my knees. Tomorrow is going to grand…
Dinner was a fun one tonight, chicken breast, asparagus and mac and cheese. Maybe not the healthiest but it was good!
