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.

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This morning I woke up and was supposed to take a MAF run test on the treadmill, however - my right foot was hurting - hurting so bad I could barely walk.

Though my legs were sore yesterday from Friday’s run, my feet had felt fine. Why is my foot hurting so badly now? I decided to skip the MAF run test and spend an hour on the stationary bike instead.

I spent most of the remainder of the da

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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

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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

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I did my long (85 minutes) run yesterday, and today’s my day off. About 20 minutes into the run, I thought I was feeling some pain in my right foot – the same pain that had me NOT running for the last 2 weeks. It only lasted for a split second and would come and go for a couple of minutes. By about 25 minutes into the run, it was completely gone. The rest of the run went well, as well as a boring tre

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