![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Week 1 Day 3(b)
I'm late with things this week; I'd hoped to be running on Mondays or Tuesdays, generally. Monday I wasn't feeling well, Tuesday I was stuck inside waiting for a parcel, yesterday was far too busy.
I was tired today, and I noticed that while the 60-second running intervals were still relatively easy in cardiovascular terms, I felt more out of breath than usual and took a bit longer for my breathing to return to normal in between.
As with last week, I extended the walking intervals (by pausing the app on my phone) so that I did not start any running interval with shin pain beyond a certain level. On an entirely subjective scale I think the shin pain was less than it has been since the first run, so I'm very pleased with this strategy. I started stretching between running intervals much earlier in this session, before my shins actually started to hurt (but when I could feel the muscles I stretch were starting to seize up a bit), and that seems to have helped.
I need to decide whether to keep doing Week 1 Day 3 until I can do it "as directed" with only 90 second walking/stretching intervals, or move on to Week 2 and keep pausing the walking intervals as needed. None of the running intervals today felt as if I couldn't have continued for another thirty seconds, either because of CV limits or shin pain limits, so I am leaning toward starting Week 2, but perhaps it is best to see how I feel in the next few days (last week I had sore shins walking for a couple of days after my run despite the new strategy, and I could do without having that as a regular feature of my life).
I was tired today, and I noticed that while the 60-second running intervals were still relatively easy in cardiovascular terms, I felt more out of breath than usual and took a bit longer for my breathing to return to normal in between.
As with last week, I extended the walking intervals (by pausing the app on my phone) so that I did not start any running interval with shin pain beyond a certain level. On an entirely subjective scale I think the shin pain was less than it has been since the first run, so I'm very pleased with this strategy. I started stretching between running intervals much earlier in this session, before my shins actually started to hurt (but when I could feel the muscles I stretch were starting to seize up a bit), and that seems to have helped.
I need to decide whether to keep doing Week 1 Day 3 until I can do it "as directed" with only 90 second walking/stretching intervals, or move on to Week 2 and keep pausing the walking intervals as needed. None of the running intervals today felt as if I couldn't have continued for another thirty seconds, either because of CV limits or shin pain limits, so I am leaning toward starting Week 2, but perhaps it is best to see how I feel in the next few days (last week I had sore shins walking for a couple of days after my run despite the new strategy, and I could do without having that as a regular feature of my life).
no subject
Good news that your strategy is helpful for reducing the shin pain, too. I think you could well move up to Week 2; if you're needing to extend the recovery periods to protect your shins (rather than to let your heart and lungs catch up), you're likely to keep having to do that. I suppose if you try it and find that 90 second runs make your shins much worse you can drop back again. Also, most of the recovery times after week 1 are longer, so may well give you enough time to complete your stretches.