New Toys

Woo - new toy! :)

We had significant birthdays for both me & my mum at the easter weekend (I'm no longer in my twenties - sob!), so we had the whole family back in Preston. Lots of tasty food and wine later, I was on the way home with a bag full of champagne, tasty goodies, and one of these :-D

Which means the garmin pages I've been linking to now have even more stuff on them, including maps of where I've been. Which I reckon is way cool, in an geeky kinda way :)


Examples are here (from monday) and here (from this evening).

The first was a heart rate interval session.  After a mile or so of warming up, run a mile whilst trying to keep a high heartrate (around 180bpm in my case), then half a mile at a much lower recovery rate (150-160).  Repeat.

Doing this kind of training repeatedly helps make your heart more efficient, meaning you can work harder at the same heartrate.  In other words, it makes you faster.  I'm pretty happy with where I am so far with the distance, so I've been able to concentrate on some more varied training over the last few weeks, including some fast runs, some intervals, and even fell running (shudder!)

The other big change is that we now have showers at work, so I can do runs from work at lunchtime or running in in this morning (as I'm planning tomorrow).  Less than 7 weeks to go, so having opportunities to squeeze in more miles always helps.