I browsed through my multiply account today and saw Yves entry on his running experience. [click] Thanks to M. there are now two people who are in a constant hype of running or biking. While reading through Yves' entry and the achievements he has had along the way...goal distance of 15k a week makes me remember what i was like just a few months back. Earlier this year my exercise constituted going up and down staircases to attend classes or dancing for the occassional YoDa presentation. That wasn't much. Additionally it wasn't even constant to begin with. So because of that a middle buldge had begun to settle.
Ever since MTR, thanks to M. and my first taste of finishing a 5k run in less than an hour I got hooked. I tried if schedule permited to run at least 3x a week. Ideal exercise to get results would be 30minutes 4x a week. Of course this would change, studies come first. But once I got a taste of the running bug even if I was sick I wanted to run. Something inside me would berate me for not being able to step outside the house and start sweating. Yves led me to another site [click] of a, would you believe it, female runner in her early 30's. Ironicallly, or coincidentally, she lives just in Ayala Alabang. Her success stories, which are what litters her site, with running and the different races she's joined since starting out last year are what is surprising. Gives me this tinge of hope knowing that I too, perhaps by next year, would be able to reach her pinnacles and soar the heights she has. Someday right? I'm including some photos from the bullrunner's site. Inspiring really. Gets me moving.
Keeping the head in the game: Killer legs and an ass!!
4 comments:
you should buy an hr monitor, mura na yun mga TIMEX I saw one for around 3k plus. That would greatly improve your performance, because you can do a fast 30 mins at 85% hr max on certain days, and a slow recovery runs at 70-80% hr max. Para you can run for 4-5x a week without hurting yourself. for 5k races naman you run at 90-95%
Inspiring yun mga blog noh, tell your M-Mommy? to make one din. haha
an HR monitor? really? hmm ill think about it. what's your HR got to do with your performance?enlighten me. hahaha M is your bestfriend. it's a futile attempt to try to protect his privacy. hirap na when people visit this site and his name is plastered everywhere. :)
It sort of keeps you heart rate in check, so you wont overdo or under your work outs, also It tells you if what your doing is training your aerobic capacity or anaerobic.
For example, when i ran I find a max heart rate that I can sustain for a long time without feeling the burn on the legs (meaning your at aerobic capacity), this way I can be efficient in my trainings and I can also monitor if my performance is improving, meaning my hr gets lower with the same effort, or if I get faster.
Like when I started out, the pace I'm at I ran at 86% HR Max, now with the same pace I do 82% so I know I've improve, less effort for the same pace. And also I can be faster, since I know I can sustain comfortable running at say 86% I can pick up the pace.
M-Mommy has one din pala, you can try it out. :)
oh thats how that works. cool! :) still a little bit confusing to me though but i see how it helps.
m-mommy? that's funny. where'd that come from? :)
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