Today I went for a recovery paced run with four shorter strides to prepare myself for my Sunday long run tomorrow.
I prepared the workout in garmin, with 4 easy (zone 1 km) as a warmup, followed by 4 strides (15 sec) with 1 min active recovery. Lastly I closed my run with a low zone 2 cooling down.
The strides went well, especially considering the first 2 strides had some turns in it. The last 2 I could just have some fun and go a little faster.
(Most right is the pace as time/km)
While strides are lots of fun, they also make me hungry for real speed work rather than more zone 1 & 2 runs. But I will just follow the proces and tomorrows long run will probably just be zone 2 - low zone 3.
Luckily next week I have a tempo run scheduled and probably another interval so that is definitly something I am looking forward to! In order to stay motivated I am looking at a few more technical routes for tomorrow, that paired with some good music is going to make it very enjoyable!
Note: despite the focus on low intensity runs some pain near the piriformis muscle which might been a result of the hill repeats. So will pay some extra attention to that. Luckily with Christmas coming up and a small planned road trip I should have plenty of time in late december to give it some rest !
Happy running!