Running – Week 19 – Graphs
Last week’s running can be best explained by two graphs.
Thursday’s run was speedwork. Normally I’m not a fan of speedwork, especially at 7:30 in the morning, but this one actually went fairly well. I managed to keep a good pace on the speedwork sections and ran hard the whole time. The graph below is my heart rate from the run — can you tell when I was running fast and when I was doing my recovery jogs?
20090806 - Speedwork - Heartrate
Sunday’s run was the long run. I’m supposed to be tapering now, bringing down the distance in preparation for the half marathon next Sunday. I decided to try something different for Sunday’s run: I took a bus out to Mt Coot-tha, where I previously went cycling, and started my run there. I ran along the road around the top of Mt Coot-tha, then started downhill to the river for the run home. It ended up being a little bit longer than I planned. It was pretty tough too: there was a 2.5km climb along the way, as you can see from the elevation graph below.
This week also marks my passing — blowing away! — the 500km mark for the year.
| Aug 3 Mon | Rest day | |
| Aug 4 Tue | 3.7km | Easy run |
| Aug 5 Wed | Rest day | |
| Aug 6 Thu | 13.3km | Speedwork 5×1600 with 800 jogs |
| Aug 7 Fri | 3.6km | Easy run |
| Aug 8 Sat | Rest day | |
| Aug 9 Sun | 18.8km | Long run |
| Total | 39.4km | Year to date: 530.0km |
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