11-12-2025, 08:33 AM
Good morning Gavin, due to commitments yesterday I decided to run this morning, Thursday, which still gives me a rest day before parkrun Saturday.
Run started with a 3.5K warm-up and already was feeling a bit fatigued without being able to establish why. I changed the course to run on a straight flat tar pavement as opposed to the out and back dirt road run last week.
Herewith the 3 x 1K intervals:
1stKM – 5’04 @ 151 Ave BPM - Struggled through the middle segment of this run to get leg turnover.
Rest 1:37 heart rate not down sufficiently hovering around 110 BPM.
2ndKM – 4’49 @ 152 Ave BPM – Felt a little better, more even paced than 1st interval.
Rest 3’13 heart rate will not get below 110 despite the longer rest segment.
3rdKM – 5’30 @ 153 Ave BPM – No energy, struggling to breathe, glad to have that over, despite the poor time.
Walk ran the 1.2K home feeling quite spent. I don’t really know why I couldn’t get going over the final kilometer within the 5'00 mark. Overall compared to last week this session felt so much more complex. Health wise I am in good shape without any obvious symptoms that would explain the performance. I am intrigued as to why I couldn’t get my heart rate down to the 100BPM mark which occurred within about 90 seconds between intervals last week. I would like your opinion if you have one on that, feel free to see my Strava data.
Post run feeling tired, but no niggles, aches or pains.
I will be most intrigued to see next week’s performance on this run.
Thanks Neil.
Run started with a 3.5K warm-up and already was feeling a bit fatigued without being able to establish why. I changed the course to run on a straight flat tar pavement as opposed to the out and back dirt road run last week.
Herewith the 3 x 1K intervals:
1stKM – 5’04 @ 151 Ave BPM - Struggled through the middle segment of this run to get leg turnover.
Rest 1:37 heart rate not down sufficiently hovering around 110 BPM.
2ndKM – 4’49 @ 152 Ave BPM – Felt a little better, more even paced than 1st interval.
Rest 3’13 heart rate will not get below 110 despite the longer rest segment.
3rdKM – 5’30 @ 153 Ave BPM – No energy, struggling to breathe, glad to have that over, despite the poor time.
Walk ran the 1.2K home feeling quite spent. I don’t really know why I couldn’t get going over the final kilometer within the 5'00 mark. Overall compared to last week this session felt so much more complex. Health wise I am in good shape without any obvious symptoms that would explain the performance. I am intrigued as to why I couldn’t get my heart rate down to the 100BPM mark which occurred within about 90 seconds between intervals last week. I would like your opinion if you have one on that, feel free to see my Strava data.
Post run feeling tired, but no niggles, aches or pains.
I will be most intrigued to see next week’s performance on this run.
Thanks Neil.