#18 – 50 runs in 100 days summer edition
#79 – 100 Days Of Miles Challenge

Tonite it was time to test pulse based interval training. To have a pulse a couple of heart beats lower than my threshold pulse.

But of course I ran into issues with my pulse belt.

I had the pleasure of doing this with Malin, another Coach K Runner.

We started with 2K warmup and then it was 4xK intervals with 2 minutes rest between each interval.

I had created a workout in Movescount and thought that it was correct. The warmup, interval and first rest worked but not the second 🙂 so then Malin had to keep track of the distance after that.

Since I couldn’t see the heart beat on the display I had to go on feeling. My threshold is 163 and when we ran up the hill at Vallåsen this weekend I had a pulse around 160. So the first 2 intervals felt that I was below my threshold pulse.

Some other runners were out and dog walkers and I am wondering what they thought when they saw us and I was screaming at myself to continue and shout to Malin how long is is left from time to time 🙂

Sometimes I wonder why I do intervals because I do not like them at all. That is the most brutal running I can do but I also know what it will give 🙂 And tonite I was running REALLY LONG intervals.

The last two felt VERY LONG and I also went above my threshold pulse, thought it never would end.

The pace was definately outside of my comfort zone

Distance: 6.42 miles (10.33K), time: 1.01.20 h, average pace: 5.56 min/k, max pace: 4.11 min/k,
VO2 Max: 29 ml/kg/min, cadence: 182

MTD: 135.47 miles (218.1K)
YTD: 625.44 miles (891.90K)