Bid me run...
January 25, 2010 | 2:15 pm
I was a lab rat yesterday. And it was actually pretty awesome. Aerobics First was sharing a booth with the New Balance guys at the Optimyz Live Show at the World Trade and Convention Centre. We had a treadmill, and after Daniel Crumback's very engaging presentation we decided we would do some testing on it. I was wearing a harness/heart rate monitor that was measuring how far I was leaning forward at certain speeds, what my heart rate was, and how deeply and frequently I was breathing. We also calculated my running cadence.
It was all fun stuff, but to be perfectly honest, I don't really understand what any of the numbers mean, but as I said, bid me run...
I'm a writer, not a science...doing...guy. Basically I just put the harness on and hammered for thirty minutes in a pair of New Balance 1064s the reps were kind enough to lend me. It was all pretty cool to look at after, though.
The training week went fairly well. I'm still in that phase of training where improving is easy. When you start off in the worst shape of your life, there's really only one direction you can go. The hardest session of the week was on Wednesday. I decided to hop into the workout I was coaching. I did 4X1200m at slightly faster than tempo pace. It was the first time in this little comeback of mine that I worked out faster than tempo pace. It was a weird feeling. I learned some things though; turns out that when the wheels come off, you need something else there to fall back on. This was the first time in my life that I've had absolutely no base. And I definitely felt it. But I guess that's what I'm working on.
My exciting news for the upcoming week: I've got the track itch. Already. I hadn't planned on this, but I need to run FAST. This road stuff is just killing me. So tomorrow evening I'm going to hop in with the Dal 800m group. Maybe getting my butt kicked by a bunch of guys who are in way better shape than me will convince me to stick to the roads. Or maybe, just maybe, old Rich will decide to show up and I'll rip it.
Sounds suspiciously like things impossible...
Also, check out this article from Runner's World on Zola Budd.
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