8 km Fartlek Session

Wasn't really sure what type of session I was going to do today. I don't generally run to a schedule, it's more a 'how I feel approach'. I know that's not how elite athletes would train but it serves me well. Some stats first. Checked my weight this morning : 78.4 kg. I reckon I can lose another 2-3 kg's. Within 5 minutes of heading out I decided I'll do a fartlek session over an 8 km course. Plan was alternating km's easy and fast, starting with an easy one. I had my trusty Garmin 301 to tick off the km's. It was raining, and had been since noon. I headed out for my run at 4.35 pm running a block of streets around Hoppers Crossing. Well, what can I say, my first km was easy, next hard, next easy and so on. I was running the hard/fast km's faster than I would in a race. During the hard km's I thought I can't slow down as it will take longer to reach the start of the easy km. I really enjoyed the easy km's and was pleased with my recovery and readiness to take on the next hard km. Overall, for 8 km's the time was 36:18 for a pace of 4:32. My heart-rate max was 169 and average 145 bpm. On return I was completely soaked but generally happy with the session. Using an exercise ball (in my study) 250 sit-ups completed - they take about 14 mins. Usually I do 200 but today was feeling good, hell why not , do more. Details of this session can be found here. All the data was uploaded to the Motionbased website. If you do not have an account you will have to create one (free) to peruse the data.

More stats:

Previous 7 Days : 49.6 km Weekly Average : 42.0 km

Previous 28 Days: 261.1 km

This month: 49.6 km Monthly Average : 175 km YTD : 1929.7 km Yearly Average (2001) : 1453 km Total (from 2001) : 7269 km

Until next time.