Beginning to feel more like my normal self, however I do not feel like I am back at full capacity yet. My cough was practically gone this past week, but would crop up from time to time. My energy is coming back also and I am not bonking workouts like I have been, but my heart rate is still higher than normal and I am far off holding my hard Thursday run pace for as long as I used to be able too. I may have lost some fitness over this past month, but if that is the case, I’ll regain it relatively quickly over the coming weeks.
April 27 to May 3
Monday: Treadmill, 40mins easy.
Tuesday: 1 mile warm up, 7:30, drills and strides.
Spikes:
3×300, 5mins rec: 46, 46, 45. This is a similar workout I ran right before getting sick and I am actually a bit nervous of it. I slowed the pace down, and brought the recovery down as well, to make sure I could complete it without ending up in another world of hurt. Last time we did this, we did the reps much faster, with much more recovery. Slowing these reps down a fair bit was I think, a really good idea as I am still coming back and would rather play it safe right now.
Wednesday: Treadmill, 40mins easy.
Thursday: Treadmill, 6mins warm up, 20mins on 9, 5xhills on incline 6, speed 11.5.
Better 20min segment this week, no coughing but still very difficult over last 5mins. I held 30 mins of this a monthago so am still a fair bit off on this.
PM, easy 40mins with work group.
PM 8K with Achilles Group, 4:45 per K. Cramped up on this run and had to stop twice to stretch quad. Probably a bad idea to run 3 times lol, but just so nice outside!
Saturday: 7mins warm up on grass, drills and hard strides.
Spikes:
4x200m, 90secs rec. Workout called for these to be in 28:
28, 29, 29, 32. Pretty good workout for me. I did not think I’d hold pace for as long as I did.
800m, slow jog warm down.
Sunday: 40mins easy moderate on Treadmill.
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