Garmin must be frustrated with me, ever since last weeks peak week it stating that my trainingsreadiness is low and I should take a complete day off. Today I felt the emotional urge to just put in some work, not too much but enough to let some frustration come out of the system.
While I do realize that I cannot just keep stacking hard runs, I made a compromise today by setting up this training;
- warmup 3 km
- 5 min @ 3:50 - 3:55
- 5 min walk / jog
- 5 min @ 3:50 - 3:55
- 5 min walk
- 2 km cooling down jog.
This is a compromise as I would need to make it atleast 18 min (3x 6 min) to make it a true LT run - but that doesn’t feel that responsible atm. Furthermore the pace 3:50 - 3:55 is faster than my current LT so it just felt good to nail these intervals (speed at interval 1: 3:51 /km / speed at interval 2: 3:52 / km) but would be a little too fast for LT workout (3:57 - 4:00 / km).
It felt great and was short enough not to do any damage, so felt like a huge mental boost!
Happy running!