My thursday training is normally a session with medium intensity, specifically as my mornings can be quite demanding (like it was today). Nevertheless, after lunch it was time for some road work!
The weather was with a temperature of 5C very nice, there was a beautiful sun in the sky and hardly any wind, basicly perfect weather for a run.
Before the run, I created the training in garmin connect with the following setup:
Basicly the goal was to create a controlled little boost for my Lactate Threshold (LT = the max pace you can hold for longer periods of time), by staying slightly below my LT I do improve it a little without demanding too much (and thus removing the extra recovery time).
The heartrate and tempo graph indicate that I stayed just below my LT despite running the two 10-minutes blocks both at exactly 4:19 / km. Which indicates that my LT should be close to 4:05 - 4:10 / km (which is making sub 3 more likely if this sticks with longer intervals (sub 3 requires 4:15/km).
The last little spike in my pace graph was a little acceleration as I saw my kids walking home from school and wanted to say hi to them! Fun to close the run like that!
Happy running!
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