I did a bike trainer ride this morning which was total suckage. My painful saddle saga is once again rearing it’s ugly head now that I am ramping up my bike mileage. I hate the thought of riding my bike. That’s just plain wrong! I have ordered a new saddle based on talking to BT buddy Running_in_NC. Stay tuned.
Afterwards, I did a speed workout on the treadmill. It went super! That’s a real switch for me to be sitting here typing about sucky bike rides and great runs.
The treadmill workout was 7x60s at 9.5mph on 3:00 recovery. Once again, I added 10 sec to the repeats to allow the belt speed to ramp up. Makes the workout harder… just call me HTFU Girl! It was a killer workout, and I rocked it! I got thru all of the intervals strong, without any unplanned rest. Yay me! HR splits: 164,174,174,179,178,??,176.
I recorded my thoughts on Twitter during the recoveries. That was fun, tho I was a bit concerned I was stricken with twitterhea, hehehe!
Here are the tweets (in reverse chronological order):
# finished all reps strong, no wussy. now to finish with a 10 min practice the pace with hills @6mph (my desired Duke 1/2 pace) 42 minutes ago
# ditto on rep #6. moving watch to wrist instead of on TM tray, as drifing back puts me out range of HR monitor. one more! finish strong! 47 minutes ago
# almost flew off the back on rep #5, but no puke level. was visualizing Cait Snow’s run to win Lake Placid…wonder if she ever flew off a tm 51 minutes ago
# Hit puke level already on rep #4…not looking foward to reps 5-7!!! 56 minutes ago
# HTFUing my way thru another dreamill speed wrkout. 7×1:00 @ 9.5mph on 3:00 active recovery. Ouch. about an hour ago
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That is awesome you have been tweeting it up! I dont run on the treadmill anymore – it affects my body in a different way than regular running. This article helped me think about it differently: http://tinyurl.com/6yl7vb
Check it out and tell me what you think!
J
I think that it is really good that you are so committed to doing triathlon as well as writing on your blog. you have interesting atricles
Let me know if you resolve your seat issue. I have used three different seats and they all make me go numb in the nether regions after twenty minutes of riding. I don’t know if it is my position on the bike, position of the seat, or just a bad seat.
Carol, I am excited to report that I did fartleks on the treadmill today and did my 30sec intervals at 10mph (up from 9mph) with 60secs of recovery at 6pmh. Unlike you, I don’t add any extra seconds, that belt can take as long as it wants to get up to speed! I guess I was afraid of falling off running that fast, but I didn’t. I really had to focus, though. Unfortunately, my HR monitor gets interference on my treadmill so I have no idea what my HR hits during those intervals.Thanks for motivating me to run faster
4.0 mph, which is a very slow jog for me. Funny, I almost put that in my blog, but decided nobody really cared about that! I do try to not bore people with needless details, believe it or not!
Out of curosity – what is your recovery speed? Do you jog or walk?