I was rather pleased with how the interval session went last week (1:30 running/1 minute walk rest) that I decided to do it again. I toyed with the idea of going up to 2 minutes run - but I'd have to slow down a bit in order to keep that up, and that seemed a little counter productive. I didn't want to go with a shorter time (like 1 minute) quite yet because after a rest, it takes time to get the HR up - so I didn't know if I'd have the stamina to go as fast as I'd need to go in order to get the HR up quickly enough, and still be able to finish out the full minute.
During the run, I found that I wasn't really any faster than I was last week. I'd look at my watch, see how long I'd have until the 90 seconds was up, look ahead and say to myself 'that looks like the telephone pole I stopped at last time'. That happened for probably 8-9 intervals worth. Then there were a couple that I wasn't quite as sure about, and then the last interval ended at just about the same exact spot. Since the intervals are time based, I knew that the time would be very similar to what I had done before, and thus not really any faster.
Lap 1: 9:04 (warm up)
Lap 2: 1:32 End HR: 176
Lap 3: 0:59 End HR: 139
Lap 4: 1:32 End HR: 173
Lap 5: 0:59 End HR: 140
Lap 6: 1:31 End HR: 173
Lap 7: 1:00 End HR: 136
Lap 8: 1:32 End HR: 181
Lap 9: 1:00 End HR: 147
Lap 10: 1:30 End HR: 178
Lap 11: 1:00 End HR: 136
Lap 12: 1:33 End HR: 173
Lap 13: 1:00 End HR: 138
Lap 14: 1:31 End HR: 179
Lap 15: 1:00 End HR: 141
Lap 16: 1:30 End HR: 177
Lap 17: 1:00 End HR: 147
Lap 18: 1:32 End HR: 175
Lap 19: 1:00 End HR: 146
Lap 20: 1:30 End HR: 177
Lap 21: 1:03 End HR: 141
Lap 22: 1:31 End HR: 176
Lap 23: 1:00 End HR: 142
Lap 24: 1:32 End HR: 176
Lap 25: 1:00 End HR: 140
Lap 26: 8:52 Avg HR: 157 (cooldown)
When putting in these numbers, many of them (I'd say close to 50%) were exactly the same, either in terms of time or HR. The biggest difference was the cooldown run, where I consciously slowed down a bit as compared to last week, because I wanted to get the HR down.
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