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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 |
To assess my running pace, I repeated the same interval workout today that I did on March 26. While I’m not quite back to where I was a little over six weeks ago, I am pleased with today’s training, as I was able to increase my pace for each set.
[Read more…] about Run Log 20250510I started this Thursday morning with two different runs on the track: a 5-kilometer tempo run at a pace of 5:13 per kilometer and a 1-kilometer cool-down run at a pace of 6:21 per kilometer.
Both runs went quite well, and I’m happy that I went out again before starting my workday. Today will be a long and intense day filled with meetings and presentations I need to prepare for.
I promised myself I would pick up my training schedule again this week, so I did today with two separate runs on the track. I did one 15-minute warm-up run and another 28-minute progressive tempo run for 43 minutes of exercise in total.
After stretching on the back of the first run, I started my tempo run, which combined a 5-minute warm-up with a 12-minute ‘out’ and an 11-minute ‘back.’ In my ‘out’ laps, I covered a total distance of 1,96 kilometers; in the ‘back’ run, I covered a distance of 2,28 kilometers.