Running update

Last Sunday turned out to be a bit harder on my body than I thought. I felt great when I got home, but waking up the next morning sure felt otherwise. It took five full days for my legs to recover. Wow! Each night when I'd fall asleep I was a brick, not waking up until the morning, and then not having any motivation to pull myself out of bed. I find it suprising that getting some exercise on a given day can so drastically affect your sleep cycles for the next week.

This week I'm going to shoot for two 5k runs and keep my heartrate to 75% max, which is 150. That's going to make it some very slow running, but the literature seems to suggest it's better to start your training in this range than to be doing 85-90% max, which my more typical jog elicits. It's a bit depressing that my heart has to work so hard to even jog slowly at this point, but on the other hand, that gives me a lot of physiological room to improve.

Yesterday I played an hour of light hockey and today we spent an hour and a half doing some easy cross country skiing, which I think has been some good cross training. So far so good!