Went swimming on Tuesday morning and surprisingly I got better in the pool after taking a 3 week break. Spent an hour and managed to do 10 repeats 3 times, that’s an achievement for me because I have been struggling for a while.
Did a lactate alternate threshold run in the evening with the Whippets. Did 4 repeats of 1 mile along the 72 transverse in Central Park. We broke up the 1 mile into 2 parts, the first half a mile, we run at 15 secs faster than our lactate threshold pace so lactate will start accumulating in our blood and the second half we run at 15 secs slower than our lactate threshold pace so to allow the lactate acid to be absorbed. My lactate threshold pace is at around 6:30-6:40 I think, so we ran the first half at 6:00-6:20 min/mile pace and recover at 6:40-6:50min/pace. It’s a pretty tough workout doing the 4 repeats. My garmin died half way so didn’t get an accurate reading on my watch. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/152490647
Went for another swim on Thursday morning before work for an hour.
