Well crap sleep friday night made this a little harder and I had been working in the garden all day beforehand too. But really enjoyed the route it was so nice to be out on the local trails again, I was rather hot from the start I pushed the rpe up to around lt1 for the most part to try and get more of a stimulus and allowed HR to rise on the hills, legs seamed better than they were on Thursday so thats pretty cool. Hopefully tomorrow will be a good chill day although I will be up early to head to brands hatch for the touring cars so may get plenty of steps in.
I am looking more and more at HR these days and noticed you were close to LT1, but that’s ok. Still under it for the most part and that is what matters the most for these type of sessions. Really pleased to hear the calves seem to be improving, let’s hope that continues and we can start to inject some pace. Given your injury history I’m wondering if we adopt a slightly different approach going forward by doing more threshhold work than speed work? I’ve been listening to the guys on “The Physiology of Endurance Running Podcast” and that is very much their approach. Even when they do shorter reps they don’t push the pace quicker than say 5k pace to keep themselves under LT2. But that then allows them to do more reps. I think this approach might work for you and it’s what the Tuesday AC sessions are based around I believe. Hence why they always do 30 mins but never run quicker than 5k pace and even then, it’s mainly 10k or HM pace. I think this approach might work well for you. But we can introduce it slowly.
Coach Simon 🍊
