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Big week has started, I’m about to test myself again in the Cooper test. This weeks goal is to run 2600 m in the test. I’m excited to see to results, since I feel like I gained some speed last week. Because of the test and my condition (I have been really exhausted on Mon/Tue) I tweaked my training plan. I’m replacing the fast paced run with the Cooper test, since I think they are quite similar. For the rest of the exercises I’ve looked a better day to do them. There’s a chance I won’t be able to everything this week, but I will take the Cooper test because I sooooo curious to know my current speed…

Interval training - at last!

Yesterday I finally went out to do the interval training. I was waiting for it like crazy, since I like it so much! You get to run as fast as you can and the session takes only about 15 minutes.

In a way it was an exceptional session. I like to go running early in the morning, between 5:30 - 7:00. It was my turn to take the kids to the day care, so I couldn’t go running in the morning. I waited until 9:00 in the evening, when the kids were in the bed. I noticed that my HR was low, around 60 bpm, even when I was getting ready to go out. Usually my HR jumps to 80-90 bpm when I’m putting the clothes on, so I was amazed of this discoveery.

The good feeling followed me outside. It was so easy to run and again I felt that I could go faster and faster. Just as fast as my legs could possible go. I ran for 11 cycles and spurted the last 30 seconds against a hill.

I had changed the HR max level of this session to be 80% of my max heart rate (192 x 0,80 = 154). It seemed low value to me, since I’ve usually ran the intervals with a HR of 160-170. But I thought it would be good to set the level at 154, since I hadn’t been feeling so well on the previous days. In the middle of the session my HR was staying in the 140-150 zone even on the recovery intervals, so I started walking on the recovery intervals. This helped and I could continue the session and respect the max HR level.

The new training plan for L2

• Monday: Rest
• Tuesday: Rest
• Wednesday: Interval training, 11 cycles
• Thursday: Normal paeed run, 30 min
• Friday: Cooper test
• Saturday: Rest
• Sunday: Long normal paced run, 60 min.

This week look busy, since the frst two days went resting. But it’s OK, I’m not going to stress myself if I can’t do all the trainings. As long as I get to do the Cooper test, I’m this happy See me smiling

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