28 December 2010

Conundrum...

I want to increase my speed.
Pretty much everything I've read says that one of the easiest ways to increase speed is:

to lose weight.

Well, that is helpful.

I think I will have to just put some patience pants on (which I DO NOT OWN), and tough it out.

Still depressing. 

I hate running on the treadmill. It sucks.  Today I tried interval training (another way to increase speed), and with the tv on the treadmill not working, and me wanting to die during the "work" intervals, I wanted to poke my eyes out.
Here is what I did:


Interval
How to Run
Warm up
Slowly jog for 5 minutes.
Work Interval
3 minutes at 20 seconds faster than your 5K race pace
Rest Interval
Recover (easy pace) for 3 minutes.

Work Interval
3 minutes at 20 seconds faster than your 5K race pace

Rest Interval
Recover (easy pace) for 3 minutes.

Work Interval
3 minutes at 20 seconds faster than your 5K race pace

Rest Interval
Recover (easy pace) for 3 minutes.

Work Interval
3 minutes at 20 seconds faster than your 5K race pace

Rest Interval
Recover (easy pace) for 3 minutes.

Work Interval
3 minutes at 20 seconds faster than your 5K race pace

Rest Interval
Recover (easy pace) for 3 minutes.

Cool down
Slowly jog for 5 minutes.

Thanks active.com!

*Please note that my "20 seconds faster than...5K race pace" is pretty pathetic.  And it was STILL REALLY HARD FOR ME.

1 comment:

  1. I watch Food Network when I'm running at the gym, Iron Chef makes everything go faster, it's so wonderfully distracting ;-)

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