Friday, January 13, 2006
back to back, and round and round
Friday 13th January 2006
With a weights/run back-to-back scheduled today, I posted to CoolRunning last night to get a concensus on whether to run first and then do weights, or vice versa. I awoke this morning to find the panel split on the matter. The most compelling argument was the psychological one - if I've done a run, I'll think I've done enough and skip the weights, but if I do the weights, then I'll still want to do the run. So after not being able to get back to sleep at 4:30am, I did a bit of work and headed to the gym. Standard weight program - upped a couple of weights - nothing much to say - boring to do, boring to write about...
A wet, misty morning - just the sort I love when running on grass. Ground is still wet enough to allow barefoot, so did a couple of km warmup (8:45), before deciding to try something new. The last event of the double decathlon is the 10,000m. Having never run one on the track, I think part of the challenge will be dealing with the monotony of doing 25 laps. So I decided to do the last 10km on the marked 400m track, to get my mind used to the event. Still in my Placebo phase, which gave me some 'run faster' music, which I promptly did, churning out the following splits: 4:14, 4:08, 4:05, 4:03, 4:02, 4:00, 3:59, 3:56, 3:42, 3:41). However, the whole run felt very rhthymic and loose - breathing was comfortable the entire way. The gym session appeared to have no impact on my running, which is the opposite of Monday's back-to-back session (I felt very ordinary at the gym after the run), so I will stick to this order in future. 12.5km all up in 50:17. A good, realxing run - felt great at the end.
A bit of a boost on the National Decathlon record front - Masters records use age-adjusted tables (to account for our frail condition), so my original goal of 5248 is now worth 5555 points, a nice 360 point buffer over the current record. I have resisted the temptation to scale back my targets - nothing has changed since I set them, but it is nice to know that I can afford to be a bit off in a couple of events.
With a weights/run back-to-back scheduled today, I posted to CoolRunning last night to get a concensus on whether to run first and then do weights, or vice versa. I awoke this morning to find the panel split on the matter. The most compelling argument was the psychological one - if I've done a run, I'll think I've done enough and skip the weights, but if I do the weights, then I'll still want to do the run. So after not being able to get back to sleep at 4:30am, I did a bit of work and headed to the gym. Standard weight program - upped a couple of weights - nothing much to say - boring to do, boring to write about...
A wet, misty morning - just the sort I love when running on grass. Ground is still wet enough to allow barefoot, so did a couple of km warmup (8:45), before deciding to try something new. The last event of the double decathlon is the 10,000m. Having never run one on the track, I think part of the challenge will be dealing with the monotony of doing 25 laps. So I decided to do the last 10km on the marked 400m track, to get my mind used to the event. Still in my Placebo phase, which gave me some 'run faster' music, which I promptly did, churning out the following splits: 4:14, 4:08, 4:05, 4:03, 4:02, 4:00, 3:59, 3:56, 3:42, 3:41). However, the whole run felt very rhthymic and loose - breathing was comfortable the entire way. The gym session appeared to have no impact on my running, which is the opposite of Monday's back-to-back session (I felt very ordinary at the gym after the run), so I will stick to this order in future. 12.5km all up in 50:17. A good, realxing run - felt great at the end.
A bit of a boost on the National Decathlon record front - Masters records use age-adjusted tables (to account for our frail condition), so my original goal of 5248 is now worth 5555 points, a nice 360 point buffer over the current record. I have resisted the temptation to scale back my targets - nothing has changed since I set them, but it is nice to know that I can afford to be a bit off in a couple of events.
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In my very humble opinion, given your goals I'd suggest that you do the weights first because:
(a) they are relatively easy (read: not so essential) runs; and
(b) you have said it yourself; you need to work on your strength. Give it priority.
Whatever you do second is likely to suffer slighty (whether due to fatigue, time constraints etc).
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(a) they are relatively easy (read: not so essential) runs; and
(b) you have said it yourself; you need to work on your strength. Give it priority.
Whatever you do second is likely to suffer slighty (whether due to fatigue, time constraints etc).
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