Running with a Purpose
During today's warm up, I was trying to decide my attack on the morning mileage. I really wanted to make my run worthwhile and purposeful instead of logging what some call "empty miles". After much thought I came up with two options.
1) A second attempt at running a mile straight
2) Focus on form/stride and eliminating bouncing in my running.
It took a bit but I decided to go with number two. I figured that working on #2 would help me with #1 in the long run.
I ended up programming the Garmin for different set of intervals and went with a run .25 miles/ walk 2 minutes. I wasn't really thinking when I set this but it ended up being a basic run 3/walk 2. (or run a little longer than 3 if I was slow).
While the run was tough, I really surprised myself. This is basically the next phase of training in Marathoning for Mortals and I had never thought to try the r3/w2 intervals.
SO I think I am going to stick with these intervals for my short runs (6 miles and under). This is new but it is an appropriate challenge. I can tell that running is becoming easier for me and I think this will help. It isn;t an interval I can keep up with for endurance purposes (yet) but it's a start.
1) A second attempt at running a mile straight
2) Focus on form/stride and eliminating bouncing in my running.
It took a bit but I decided to go with number two. I figured that working on #2 would help me with #1 in the long run.
I ended up programming the Garmin for different set of intervals and went with a run .25 miles/ walk 2 minutes. I wasn't really thinking when I set this but it ended up being a basic run 3/walk 2. (or run a little longer than 3 if I was slow).
While the run was tough, I really surprised myself. This is basically the next phase of training in Marathoning for Mortals and I had never thought to try the r3/w2 intervals.
SO I think I am going to stick with these intervals for my short runs (6 miles and under). This is new but it is an appropriate challenge. I can tell that running is becoming easier for me and I think this will help. It isn;t an interval I can keep up with for endurance purposes (yet) but it's a start.