Brisk five-minute warmup walk. Then alternate 1:10 minutes of jogging and 1:40 minutes of walking for a total of 20 minutes.
Week 4! How about that! I cannot believe I’ve stuck with this for this long! It’s so not like the I-don’t-like-to-sweat me! LOL
I had an epiphany this morning. I’m not giving myself long enough to recover between my intervals. My first 1:10 run was so much easier than I was expecting. I fully intended on just walking this morning because of my heel but when I was about half way thru my 5-minute warmup walk I realized my heel was barely bothering me, so I ran. I skipped the next run and continued to walk and when it was time to run again, I ran it with no problems. I even felt like my timer went off earlier than it should have. So I tried that tactic again and walked through the next time I was supposed to run and lo and behold, my 3rd run was easy! I almost did it again, but knew I’d be rushed for to get out the door if I did. Wednesday, I’m going to change my walk interval to 2:30 and see how that does. Woohoo! Now if I could figure out my stupid foot, because it’s bothering me right now! LOL
Kahuna keeps talking to me about using a heart monitor so I may try using one this week. He says I should get the same kind of notice that I need to recover longer by going by my heart. One more gadget to get used to. He uses his faithfully and has been improving, not to mention it’s probably keeping his cardiologist happy.
Tomorrow is strength training. I’ve only been doing upper body workouts because of time, but starting tomorrow I’m going to do 1 body part a day and add 1 more day of training. I have only been able to get in 2 sets of 4 exercises and I want to do 3 sets of 2 exercises per body part. Changing will have me training for 6 days a week, unless I change my strength training to Sun, Tues and Thurs, which will have my training 7 days a week. I’ll have to think on that one.
I am really looking forward to walking on the beach again this coming Saturday. From where Kahuna surfs to the pier is 1.5 miles. My goal right now is to walk there and back.
Work is nice and quiet this morning. Just a bunch of follow up mailings of court documents from the mad rush of last week, accounts payable and maybe some filing. Thank goodness.
