Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday
Where did you go?
Wednesday and Thursday I managed that exact same time twice; two and a half miles at 20:45 or an 8:18 pace. Friday I was able to get that number down to an 8:11 pace; still making progress. I should be under 8 minutes by Christmas for a 2.5 mile distance. My 3.5 mile pace usually trail by 10 seconds per mile.
Last night I finally finished the weight set. It’s a tight squeeze, but it will work. Saturday I’ll run and lift if I’m lucky, but starting next week I should be cutting back to running on M, W, F and lifting T, Th, S. It will be interesting to see how it affects my running.
Curiously my weight and body fat has hit a major plateau. Part of it I simply put on Thanksgiving, and honestly the weight part isn’t a bad thing. But I am curious about the body fat. I’ve only measured under 18.5% twice. My diet is the same one that got me to this point. I wonder how much your body adapts and changes chemistry to preserve itself.
Wednesday and Thursday I managed that exact same time twice; two and a half miles at 20:45 or an 8:18 pace. Friday I was able to get that number down to an 8:11 pace; still making progress. I should be under 8 minutes by Christmas for a 2.5 mile distance. My 3.5 mile pace usually trail by 10 seconds per mile.
Last night I finally finished the weight set. It’s a tight squeeze, but it will work. Saturday I’ll run and lift if I’m lucky, but starting next week I should be cutting back to running on M, W, F and lifting T, Th, S. It will be interesting to see how it affects my running.
Curiously my weight and body fat has hit a major plateau. Part of it I simply put on Thanksgiving, and honestly the weight part isn’t a bad thing. But I am curious about the body fat. I’ve only measured under 18.5% twice. My diet is the same one that got me to this point. I wonder how much your body adapts and changes chemistry to preserve itself.
posted by Jason Fletcher at 11:15 AM
2 Comments:
Did you see how close are posttimes were? Weird. 8:18 is a very solid pace, you're running now J, not jogging. It sounds like we will be able to run well together, do you want to go do a trail run if the weather is nice?
The body is amazing at adapting. You know this when it comes to weights, 6 weeks tops for a program and then you have to switch it up. It is the same thing with diet and cardiovascular exercise as well. I was meaning to ask you if you ever do any speed training. Do you? That might make a difference, but as far as the plateauing (SP?) I am the wrong person to ask about that. Stuck on 24%. At least you got your magic number down to 18%. I am totally convinced that after 2-3 months of lifting weights your body fat will drop below 15%, don't sweat it.
Yea, I'd been checking the past couple of days, but nada. I figured you had a busy week. So I decided to add a little something, hit publish, turned to answer the phone, turned back to the computer, and saw your post. Would have replied earlier, but I had a meeting.
We should definately due a run, but I'm pretty nervous I'll have a hard time keeping up. My times are all on the treadmill and for much shorter distances.
I haven't tried any speed training. I rarely get outside. Maybe I'll try your fartlek stuff. How do you do it?
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