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This 19-minute run is my easy ‘comeback’ run after 5 days of recovery and zero running. My body battery isn’t yet where I want to be, but at least my legs feel a lot better than they did last Sunday. Depending on how I wake up tomorrow (I have a 50th birthday party tonight), I will go for another run.
I’ve decided to pause my half-marathon training plan as my body isn’t recovering enough for me to intensify my training. I will continue running to remain consistent over the next two weeks, but will not engage in any intense interval training or long runs. I hope to see my HRV increase and my RHR decrease by doing so.
While I’m disappointed with the current results, this is just the way it is.
| Date | Duration | Average Heartbeat |
Distance | Pace | V02Max | HRV | RHR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 8 | 2:10:46 | 138 bpm | 19,2 km | 6:47 | 41,6 | 52 ms | 61 bpm |
| 20250518 | 43:17 | 136 bpm | 6,17 km | 7:01 | 41,7 | 57 ms | 59bpm |
| 20250516 | 40:59 | 150 bpm | 6,00 km | 6:49 | 41,8 | 57 ms | 61 bpm |
| 20250513 | 31:29 | 137 bpm | 5,02 km | 6:16 | 41,8 | 49 ms | 63 bpm |
| 20250512 | 15:00 | 129 bpm | 2,07 km | 7:14 | 41,5 | 44 ms | 62 bpm |
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I completed another easy recovery run here in Barcelona. Running in this city is fun as there are always so many people running on the streets after a workday. While I’m still a tourist in Barcelona, it is great to experience that I can run through the city without using a map.
With only 6 hours of sleep last night due to an early flight to Barcelona this morning, my body didn’t recover well after yesterday’s 12,8-kilometer long run. So for today, I only completed a 15:00 minute recovery run on the famous Avinguda Diagonal. I trained intending to keep my average heart rate below 130 bpm, which I successfully achieved.
While this is technically Week 7 of my half-marathon training plan, I needed to return to Week 4 training levels to pick things up again.
Week 4 of my training schedule ended on April 20th. Between then and May 5th, I could only complete four runs, which is now leading to this setback in my schedule. While my initial goal was to increase my pace, I have now adjusted my goal to completing another Half-Marathon distance under 2 hours. The reasoning is twofold:
Finishing under two hours would still be an improvement compared to my last half-marathon distance run on March 30th of this year.
| Date | Duration | Average Heartbeat |
Distance | Pace | V02Max | HRV | RHR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 7 | 2:56:27 | 156 bpm | 29,6 km | 5:57 | 41,6 | 59 ms | 59 bpm |
| 20250511 | 1:24:20 | 157 bpm | 12,88 km | 6:33 | 41,5 | 54 ms | 62 bpm |
| 20250510 | 16:15 | 160 bpm | 3,24 km | 5:01 | 41,6 | 68 ms | 60 bpm |
| 20250508 | 6:28 | 149 bpm | 1,02 km | 6:20 | 41,6 | 61 ms | 58 bpm |
| 20250508 | 26:18 | 167 bpm | 5,04 km | 5:13 | 41,7 | 61 ms | 58 bpm |
| 20250505 | 28:00 | 158 bpm | 5,03 km | 5:34 | 41,7 | 54 ms | 57 bpm |
| 20250505 | 15:04 | 145 bpm | 2,43 km | 6:31 | 41,7 | 54 ms | 57 bpm |