800 repeats (2/11/22)

Today I did half mile Repeats. The training plan only suggested this one other time. It was so hard in October and so hard today. The heat made it even worse today. I did not make my times. I didn't make it last time. This time I was really short on time so I kept looping near my house and cut the cooldown short when I just couldn't stay out any longer. I didn't get enough time to cooldown or stretch. Then I showered and immediately sat for a meeting for an hour. My muscles are not happy with me. I have been psyching myself out for my runs lately with my updated faster goals. Today and this week I've been so rushed I didn't even have time to psych myself out. I was mid run before I looked to see what my goals were. I had hand fulls of ice in my vest but I wish I had even more. That was some warm water I was drinking. 

The last 3 recovery splits I walked for 3 full minutes!! Maybe next time I will walk more earlier to not be so dead later. The very last split I felt like the wind was hitting me like crazy and I was not happy with it slowing my already slow body down. 

It was hot so I wore my vest so that I could drink more water but the vest makes me way sweatier.

I often do 4 minute repeats but for some reason that extra 30 seconds makes it harder  or maybe it's all mental that I don't know when it'll be done. 

I attached 10/19/21 splits too for fun.

(Ooops I forgot to post this!)

 

Speed Repeats (6x1 6x0:30)

 I have done the same workout 3 times. I previously did a post with speed workouts. 

Today I had even faster goal times since I changed my race goal so all training run goals have become faster. I thought there was no way I'd hit the 30 second goal times. 

I'm not as shocked that my 1 min repeats were fast. I am shocked that they were ALL too fast.  I'm surprised only 1 of the 30 second repeats was too slow. I'm shocked how many were way too fast though.  Half of them were 30 seconds too fast. 

Octover 8 was the first time I did this exact workout and then January 4 was the second time I did it. 

I'm actually surprised how much improvement I've had.  All intervals had a 1 minute recovery. Every time I walk a bit of that and jog the rest. 

Running Details

I keep poking around on Garmin and MapMyRun. 

I found a way to see what the scheduled run should be on Garmin. On the app it always disappears once you run it. So if you alter  it and shorten it, you can't tell. Also it doesn't tell you what the suggested pace should be. 

The purple is the plan where it just says something like "Easy Run"

This is what I actually did for my Progression Run. I can click View Details for all the stats.

This is the progression run plan.

I wrote the above but then didn't post it on September 8!

Before I run this is how the screen shots look on my phone

I was looking up some old mapmyrun details

This is the run that I ran and noticed that after an hour the satellites just barely worked so then it would totally miss streets I ran on.

I also remember this day when I was using imapmyrun and then I reset it!

Speed Repeats (10.8.21)

Today I did my first speed repeat run for my half marathon training plan. I have done 3 before from te 10k training plan.  After I was done I thought I did the same as I did before. I went fast or too fast on the first ones and then when the goal increased I was not that fast. Also 30 seconds is too short for intervals. I cannot get up to speed. 

When I looked at the plan for today I thought there was no way I would even be close.   I thought for sure my fast splits was way worse. I cannot believe the average was still in range.  I really tried hard the last split knowing I had missed the ones before it. 30 seconds is just too short. Not only does it take me long to get running fast but it also takes the Garmin awhile to catch up to speed so no matter what the first time I look at my watch I'm 1-2 minutes slower pace than it says I should be. 

Today I took some video of myself running back and forth hoping for screen shots. I was almost done when I heard the neighbors voices.  They were on their porch! I mostly ran right in front of their house back and forth!  I just went inside. They probably already think I'm crazy so nothing to be embarrassed about. (I used Nike Run Club, MapMyRun, and Garmin.)

I previously did Speed repeats on 9/9, 9/17, and 9/20. 
I went back and dug up old screen shots. It might not have been all I did but I labeled the screen shots with the date to better be able to compare.  I feel like it's fun to see. Nobody else probably cares but I like to look at it so maybe in a few months I'll like to have it all organized here instead of having to go back and dig through screen shots again. 

On 9/9 I at least got better with my first and second grouping. I just was way too slow.

On September 20 my first batch was way too fast. It was even too fast compared to the pace for the fast pace. But then my Second ones were slower (but still faster than goal.)  I was really confident coming out of this workout. 

September 17 was called Speed Repeats but the interval length was much longer.  4 minutes was a nice length.  Screen shots were taken of the old screen shots just so the date is added in.

When I initially made the screen shots sometimes I labeled with emojis so I can easily tell if I made my goal or not but I need to automate this is in some way. 

Today I went back and labeled with emojis the September 20 run since it wasn't labeled.  But I made the table a little better after that so the one above is slightly different. 

On another note today I ran a lot harder than yesterday and felt like I was dying from the super fast paces and then I had to cooldown so slow because I was so tired.  Yesterday I ran straight through without walk breaks. Yesterday my pace was 10:49 and today 11:03. So today I ran parts A LOT faster but then I also walked more on recovery and also jogged slower. 

Garmin 10k Training Plan

After my surgery I changed from a half marathon training plan to a 10k training plan. I did wait a little long to do it so I couldn't even get a race on the date of my actual race since all the plans are long.  I was coming from nothing for a month so I actually switched trainers because the runs would be too long. Then I switched again. Coach Greg had the closest to actual race date and also the shortest runs that I would be able to handle. 

I changed my goal time twice throughout training. I'm currently on week 7 of 12.  When you open Garmin Coach it has how confident it thinks you will do in your race based on your current runs and your goal time.   See the screen shots above. I increased my goal time by 2 minutes and you can see that the green circle is still confident but not as overly confident.

When you transition to the next thing to do, it pops up on your watch. 

It took some time to get used to how the watch displays things for the training plan. I'm still not liking the warm-up and cool down intervals. Then it's impossible to see mile splits since you have 5 minutes or whatever before a split. It took me awhile to realize you can swipe up on your watch to actually see your pace on the warm up and cool down. You don't need to know the pace but it's just fun to see what you are up to. 

The training plan started with a bunch of Easy runs. Then it added 1 speed run a week. There are 2 now. 

My easy pace has improved. I'm faster now after weeks of running. I'm surprised how much my speed workouts have improved based on the slow times of the easy runs. 

Once you complete the workout, you can't actually view what the workout was with the goals. I always take a screen shot before I run so I can compare what I did to it after. On almost every speed workout, I'm way faster than I should be. 

On August 1 I updated my goal time. Then on August 31 after my run, I updated my goal time again. I initially had trouble picking a goal time based on how weak my core was from surgery. Depending on how I think about the goal I think it's too fast or I think it's too slow.  The Easy runs have a pace range of 1-2 min slower than your goal pace. So initially it was 11:47-12:47 then 11:37-12:37  and then 11:18-12:18. 

I like the optional portion of the train plans because at the beginning I needed to cut out optional. 

I have been doing intervals and increasing my run time as I got more into shape. I just keep wanting to run to get more stats. The training plan only gives you 4 runs at a time. It might give you more if you have it schedule more than 4 runs in a week. As soon as I complete a run then a new one in the training plan shows up. I have noticed that the duration is increasing weekly. Also on runs, repeats are increasing.At first it had me do 4 sets of striders and then next time it was 8 and then 12. 

Once you run, I don't like how you can't see the plan/goals. You can see what you ran and the title of the run but you can't see what the suggested was. 

You can see from the Pace on the chart how I do intervals as I run. 

After almost every run, I take a screen shot of my stats and then I label it in some way to know what the goal was so I can easily see later. 

Every run has a warm up and cool down. Most are 5 minutes but sometimes they are up to 15 minutes each. The warm up and cool down are always part of the overall pace in the summary photo. I wish there was an easier way to get the pace for the run that wasn't warm-up and cool down. 

It automatically puts "Speed Repeats" if that's the run. But I have to look elsewhere to actually see what I had to do. I had a goal for the first 5 then a different goal for the next 4. Each repeat was 1 minute long. Without my screen shots I wouldn't remember this. 

Normally I do intervals for an entire workout. But I created a special one for shorter run intervals for the warm up and cool down. 

I started to try to manually edit the title so I remember later how many and how long I did the Goal Pace Repeats. 

You can see the workout schedule. The check marks are what you completed. My plan has 4 days a week but I moved stuff so I ended up running 5 times here. 

You can view all your past weeks. 

I ran with a water bottle in my pocket for the first time on August 29. It was pretty nice. 

On one of the training runs it had 5 minute intervals I decided to change my watch to beep at .5 instead of .25 so that I could get an entire interval in the 5 minutes instead of it being broken.  Then I didn't change the watch back so I did my first run ever without my watch showing me .25 splits. The previous run didn't really count since it had a bunch of smaller segments so it had new intervals anyway.  I don't like it that you don't get a time popping up as you run for the recent time when you are one one of the repeats or pace runs. All the segments are smaller than a watch interval so nothing pops up. Or if you have a 5 minute segment and it buzzes at .25 then at like 3 minutes you get your split but then the next 2 nothing pops up. 

Sometimes it's fun to overlay various things to compare.

Sometimes I mark down my interval so later it's easy to see what I ran.

Garmin labels the picture you save with a date and title which I like. But it doesn't save the photo so I can't easily scroll down in a feed and save all the stats like I can for mapmyrun. Here are 2 collages of almost all my runs in August easily saved from mapmyrun. 

I started propping my phone to show off my tanks with words. 

8/31 Progression Run  - I was too fast.

While you run the Easy Run you can see where your current pace is or you can swipe up and get displays more similar to ones I'm used to without following a training plan. 

Sometimes I label my too slow and too fast intervals. 

It was so confident I'd make my goal!

I planned to make this post flow a lot better with way more explanations but it was hard enough as it was. I wish you could pick shorter training plans. Like after I do my 10k, I want to train for another race but I already have a base so don't need so many weeks. I still have to actually figure out how to change my race registration from a half marathon to a 10k. I have more screen shots but google photos doesn't auto backup for me anymore and I had to dig and find the photos to manually back up.