This morning was my first morning outside for bootcamp. It was COLD and the wind was COLD, but I bundled up and just enjoyed the fresh air, the stars and the moon and the building lights bouncing off of the river in front of me. As much as I miss TRX when we go outside, and as hard as the running is for me, there really is so much good about being outdoors, first thing in the morning, when all is quiet.
Last night when I typed my blog entry I wrote about how I was hoping we did strength training at bootcamp today (as we normally do on Tuesday)..........and what do we do???? PROGRESSIVE/INTERVAL RUNNING!!!!
Yep, that's what we did. We started with a jog to warm up and then did a progressive run doing levels 5-9 (9 being sprints mind you). We did levels 5, 6, 7, & 8 for a minute each and one we got to 9 we hit it hard for 30 seconds....and then repeated that 4 times. All totaling about 20 minutes of jogging/running/sprinting.
My level 7 is probably my 2 1/2 mile pace but I would like to get that pace closer to a level 7.5 or 8. We'll see.
One good thing about doing this sort of training today is that I was able to see the drastic difference in my recovery time (which I've been noticing after my runs in general). When we took our heart rate a few seconds after the sprint I was at about 107 beats...I used to be about 118. And, I wasn't out of breathe for more than a few seconds afterward.
That's all very rewarding.
After running we did a few sets of different push-ups, military presses, tricep extensions and LOTS of different core exercises!
My body is tired now. It probably hates me, but I feel accomplished. Now I'm just trying to figure out which days I'm NOT going to run since I put money on tomorrow being a running day downtown at bootcamp.
We'll see!
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