Cardio – 3 x 1 Mile Interval Training
Today I was a bit smarter about my running than yesterday. I tried to keep my heart rate in the 144-161 bmp region for the runs and under 125 for the walks. I walked 0.3 miles then ran 1 mile and I repeated this 3 times. My running pace was at 10:10 which is a good bit slower than the sub 9 minute I have managed yesterday. But I have felt a lot better about it and I think this is the right zone for me to be in. The only way my speed is going to improve is through vigorous training. I’ll just have to keep on running to get my times better without killing my ticker. My total distance was 4.4 miles 3 of it was running the 1.4 was walking. All in all I think it was a good exercise. In light of these heavy duty lunch time runs I’m skipping evening cardio sessions. And due to having to run errands right after work I also skipped my strength training which was going to be legs and abs. Oh well, I’ll do them next week, my legs are plenty sore from all the running.
Interval Running
- 4.4 miles
- 51 minutes 46 seconds
- 602 calories
- 139 bpm average heart rate