Today was a tempo run. Let me explain how that works. the Adidas MiCoach program has you test out to determine what you speeds are at a light jog, a run, fast run and full out max sprint, labeling these Blue, Green, Yellow and Red zones respectively. Most of my runs I spend the majority of the time in the Blue and Green zones. With the goal of trying to stay in that Green zone. Then on Tempo days I will have to spend time in the Yellow and occasionally Red zones. Well today I had the normal 5 minute warm up in blue zone, then 10 minutes in Yellow. That's a lot of time at that pace (that's a pace of 8:51 to 7:44 minute miles.) I wasn't sure how well I would do. Well I can say that I pretty much crushed it, I held pretty tight to that pace for the entire 10 minutes. So that made me pretty happy, a great way to start the day!
Diet
I have been trying something different the last couple of weeks. I had a realization a couple of weeks ago that since I normally eat breakfast between 6-7 AM and then have lunch at 12 I have a 5-6 hour gap between meals. Which is kind of a long time, and I get hungry. Which can cause me to eat a bigger lunch that I intend to. So I made a change, and started packing a small snack along with my lunch and afternoon snacks. That way I get a mid morning snack and soda, then lunch a couple of hours later. Then a mid afternoon snack and soda. And it is gradually making a difference in my appetite.
Change
Along with my revelation that I have become a 'runner' I realized something else this week. I have a hard time getting up for some simple calisthenics on my off days, I am more excited and used to getting up and going somewhere. So I have decided that starting next week I will add a short walk on those off days,then my other work outs, just to get the blood flowing.
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