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After running scared, I still did not faithfully follow the schedule I set out to do. Thankfully, I did the one more thing - I started logging my runs.
With technology, everything measurable is captured easily, how fast I run, how hard my heart was beating, how long the distances were, even how hard the terrain was. What it doesn’t capture is what I did prior to that, and how I felt during the run.
I had good intention for my logs but they didn’t seem to be consistent to be useful. Here’s an example:
The run on Monday was rather good though. I was in my Xero shoes and no pain developed. I actually got much faster with a good cadence after a while. The speed did come at a cost of heart rate. I still need to build on that until the cost comes down.
Then I did a bit better:
I focused more on form today and seemed to hit a stride late in the run where you can see my speed suddenly increase steeply. It was still done at a corresponding increase in heart rate, but if compared to a previous session (14.17 mark), it was almost the same increase in heart rate without the corresponding increase in speed. So I really hit a stride. Need to add more effort into making the form the priority. No pains from feet, so I feel this is good.
But then, as I got lazy, this became of my log:
I wanted to just rest a bit. The pain that I said didn’t have, still came. Just felt a bit tired. Maybe not enough rest.
I realise I need to be more specific about these notes. Need to remember what to note down, what to look for.
So here’s the template for noting down my next run:
Let’s try this out and see if it really helps improve my runs.
