training diary Archives - Operation Move

This week my exercise physiologist asked me to make sure I was keeping a training diary. At which point I was a little concerned about giving him my actual training diary because that’s probably way more detail than he would ever need to see. I’d probably need a separate training diary fit for public consumption. Which got me thinking about training journals in general.

This week I talk about the benefits of multiple training diaries for different purposes. Whether they be physical diaries, virtual ones, or less diaries and more creative expressions of training.

If you’d like to check out some training diaries you can here:

Compete Training Journal

The Training Journal by the Mind Muscle Project

And if you’d like to sign up for Learn to Run and jump on the last intake we are doing before August, you can check that out here.

So the plan yesterday was for 16 x 200m in 0:51 seconds with 200m of recovery. SIXTEEN. Seems like an inhumane amount of intervals. Anyway, I was a bit intimidated by the pacing. In my mind, my interval pace is still 5:00 min/km not 4:15 min/km and I had a little trouble wrapping my head around that at first.

Once I got going the mental conversation was more along the lines of “but I can’t run this fast”, followed by “you are running this fast” and then eventually I got to the end. Only two of the intervals were outside the 4:15 pace and not by much, so I was very happy with that.

Third weights session for the week as well. Normally I always run after I lift, rather than the other way around but it’s the school holidays and beggars can’t be choosers.

I love how it threatens me with what I have to lift next time!

But the best part of the day was definitely this reluctant sunrise.

Podcast: Episode 72 – Training Diaries – the private, the social and the visual and why you need all three

How many intervals was that again?