It’s the beginning of July and finally it feels like summer!
Today I took the opportunity that the sun was shinning and decided to take my training outdoors. I haven’t done much running outside due to such terrible weather, so I definitely wanted to take advantage of this opportunity.
As mentioned in a couple of my posts now, my training hasn’t been what it should be. So for this session I was hoping in combining some distance running with speed. I’m fortunate enough that I am only doing a sprint triathlon which means the running portion is only 5km. Lucky for me, that’s the same distance that I have to run for the Adventure Challenge in September which I’ve been training for (except that for the Adventure Challenge it is a 5km trail run!).
It was such a beautiful day that Jason decided to accompany me on my run. Jason is a self proclaimed anti-long distance runner: “I don’t like any sport where you have to test your lungs!” Yet he plays hockey, go figure! So instead of working on speed and distance, I worked on playing around with the different heart rate zones.
Just today I read some interesting articles about using a heart rate monitor during your run and making the most out of it with the information at hand. With the information I read and practiced today, I feel as though my running has already improved significantly. I will definitely elaborate on the lessons I’ve learned through the various articles in a later post this week.
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