#18 – 50 runs in 100 days – No excuses edition

I enjoy running during day light and today it was time for pulse based interval training again.

Always interesting to run a couple of days after a long trail run.

A bit colder today, temperature: 2.3oC (36.14F).

So when you do pulse based intervals you are going to be a couple of heart beats under your threshold pulse and mine is 160. The most important is that you do not get over your threshold pulse during the intervals

So first 2K warm up where I try to be around 132 in pulse

First interval went just fine, did not have any problems getting up to around 157.

Rest 2 min where I jogged

On the second interval, at the end I am running up on the bike path and I have a tendency to get close to my threhold pulse and then have gone above the threshold pulse but today I reached 160 before that and for the first time kept my pulse under my threshold pulse 🙂

Rest 2 min where I jogged

Here  I start to feel that there is an end to this brutal running exercise

Third interval at the end there was some upwind

Rest 2 min where I jogged

Last interval is always a relief 🙂

1K cool down

Distance: 11.90K, time: 1.10.05.7 h, average pulse: 147, average pace: 5.53 min/k,
max pace: 4.16 min/k, cadence: 184, VO2 Max: 27 ml/kg/min

Now I have done this pulse based training and I thought it would be interesting to see first what has happened after the lactate test where I found out that my new threshold pulse was 160, it was 163 before and have there been any improvements.

This interval training felt like the smoothest so far, was very close to 157 and for the first time I did not go above my threshold pulse. Did an overview