After my typical monday rest day, I woke this morning feeling great at 4:15am to hit the pool at 5:00, followed by a track workout.
While my pool workout was stellar, I did think while swimming, that I may still be feeling the affects of this past weekends key workouts. Saturday= 4.5 hour 85 mile ride through the hills followed by a 30 min transition run. Sunday 90min easy spin followed by a 90 min run on Sunday. Both conducted in the heat and humidity of the north east (about 85-90 degrees, 99% humidity)
So I hit the track for a 30 min Z2 warm up, INTERVAL - 3 x 6 min @ Z4 w/ 3 min recovery and a cooldown. During the warmup I felt good, real good, however, it took me over 3 minutes to get up to my Z4 target HR, while it normally only takes about 1:30. This morning it was probaly 75 degrees and 95% humidity.
Considering, I’m heading up to Placid for an epic weekend of training and wathching, I ended up bagging the workout this morning and allow another 24 hours of recovery before seeing how I feel tomorrow.
Thoughts?
were you running consistent times with your previous efforts over the interval distance?
My other thought would be if your going to the track, that should be the first workout, so that you can benefit fully from it vs. going into it somewhat tired from swimming.
In the future I’d move that track workout to Tuesday PM or Wed AM, if everything else stayed the same.
In the future I’d move that track workout to Tuesday PM or Wed AM, if everything else stayed the same.
Wish I could, but evening workouts are tough with a wife and 3 kids under the age of 6… Almost all workout’s are either early AM, or after 8:30pm. 8:30pm workouts are rare and only consist of computrainer sessions which can be done in the basement gym.
Seems as though last weeks session were close to if not dead on the same times per 400m. I will mention that my hip flexors seemed fatigued, which I will contribute to Saturday’s ride & Sunday’s run.
Could just be an extra day is needed… because I feel fresh mentally.
If you are running times that are the same, I think you need to be less worried about the hrm readings. If your pace is at your threshold running speed a number of factors both physiologically and enviromentally could be affecting HR.