Today begins my Anaerobic training stage. Hopefully this will help with the monotony that has been my aerobic workouts. I've also shifted the makeup of my workouts from 60% running, 40% cycling to 80/20 - since I want to focus more on running and cannot stomach any more long (2 hour) rides on a stationary bike. Perhaps, once I can ride outdoors again, I'll go for more of a balnce between the two.

Today's workout consited at 10 x 200 meter intervals at my lactate threshold with a 200 meter recovery between each. It felt good to go for some speed for once, and hopefully this speed training will pay off on my 5k and less run times. I think I'm pretty fit aerobically, but I've never been very past. It's time to become fast! I'd love to be able to pull off a 21-minute or less 5k again, which is a feat I have not been able to acheive for about 10 years.

Tags

See All Tags

I’ve been drinking Gatorade® before and after my workouts lately, however, I wanted to add a little protein to the mix. The only product I saw that was really made for endurance training was Accelerade® , which is advertised as having a 4:1 carb-to-protein ration, which is supposed to be the best for endurance athletes. I also hope that this low concentration of protein will not h

Tags

See All Tags

Today I was supposed to bike for 2 hours (15-minute each warm up and cool down with a 90-minute ride in between), however, I could not complete it I ended only going for 100 minutes all together (20 minutes shy of my goal). Now that I'm avoiding caffeine before my workouts to ensure my heart rate is not artificially raised, it seems to be taking a lot more effort to get my heart rate into the proper zones (in

Tags

See All Tags

It took a lot of discipline to stay on the stationary bike for the full hour today (I biked for 60 minutes tonight after running for 55 this morning). It's just so boring. Even watching The Totally Rad Show on my iPod (2 episodes worth) didn't help the time go by any faster.

I'm looking forward to getting into the anaerobic phase of my training plan where there will be more short interva

Tags

See All Tags

I received my new shoes last night and decided, after yesterday's successful short run, to try and return to my normal running program. I had a 55 minute run (15-minute warmup, 25 minutes at aerobic threshold and a 15-minute cooldown). The run went fine and the shoes felt great. However, about 90 minutes after completing the run, I noticed a very dull pain where I had pain two weeks ago. I'm currently icing it and seeing how things will go.

Now that I'm (maybe) back to running, I'm going to be dividing up my workouts on days when I have both a run and a ride scheduled, so I do one in the morning and the other in the evening. Tonight I have an easy 60-minute bike ride scheduled.

Tags

See All Tags