My Journey With Weight Loss – Changing My Training Schedule

I had an awesome experience on Sunday. As things with my brother have been a bit stressful lately my sister and I decided to do something fun. There is a local craft brewery near us and we have talked for a long time about going there but just didn’t get around to it. So, we made the time and went to try some of their craft beer. I started with a flight of 4 different beers and chose one of them to have as a full serving. My sister found one she liked right away but still had to sample all of my flights. It was just a really enjoyable experience and since we had taken a cab to the brewery we decided it would be nice to walk home which just finished off this outing perfectly.

My coach has once again upped my training. This week is a 5km, interval training of 12 intervals of 10 minutes running and 1 minute walking, an 8km and then a 10km. Last week I did something similar though the number of intervals was only 10. Last week I did most of the work at the end of the week, intervals Thursday, 8km Friday and 10km on Saturday (note there is also 2 days of walking and I did the 5km on Tuesday). What I found by the end of the week was my legs were getting cranky. They weren’t overly sore, they just felt they had been worked too hard. As I also follow my coach’s instructions, I listened to my body and decided to regroup a bit.

I realized I just wasn’t giving my muscles enough time to recover which I need to keep this training injury free. When I got the training for this week I thought ok, we need to rework the schedule so that recovery is happening. This week I started Monday with the 5km (normally that would be a walking day), today I did my interval training (I should note I screwed up programming my Fitbit so ended up doing 10 intervals of 12 minutes of running but what the hell, I still did the same amount of time as I was supposed to), tomorrow I will do a long walk, Thursday will be my 8km, Friday will be another 2 hour walk and I will end the week on Saturday with my 10km. I think this is a better schedule for me as I am giving myself a bit of a break in between the harder training days.

The important thing is I took a step back and recognized that I needed to do this change. I’m pretty confident my legs will feel much better when the 10km is done this week but I will still accomplish all the training I need to keep me moving. I will also point out we are working on my speed and today I was averaging just over 6 kph which I am pretty happy with, far fewer people who were walking passed me on the promenade and that alone boosted my confidence.