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Today saw a heavy downpour, but that ain’t stopping me from training. It was supposed to be gym today, but due to the reshuffling of my training schedule due to work, I had to move yesterday’s Speed Endurance today … and yesterday’s was replaced by Slopes Dad and lil sis woke up early and making a din in the house, so that screwed up my sleep. I woke up, got ready, ate a slice of bread and off to the stadium. The place is under ‘renovation’, being the track is being repaired. Those with bumps are cut out, replaced with a new track layer and even out. So I have my usual ‘spectators’, the bangla workers. Oh how I wish it was babes!
Morning SessionThe sky was darn cloudy, it was already drizzling, and a downpour was imminent. I don’t want to hurry my training, so I took my time and being a wet session, I found that I tend to end later on such days. There will be an extra 30 minutes added to the workout. Beats me where the time went. I thought I was doing my usual routine Did dynamic warmup, one set of drills and off I went to do plyometrics. I don’t know if it not advisable to do plyometrics on two consecutive days in a row, as my performance at the jump pit was atrocious. I just had a personal best last week in standing triple jump (10.23 meters), but I reduced to pathetic jump this week. So does goes along with the standing board jump (2.69 meters). Here are my jumps
Then after a short rest, it was Speed Endurance. The training I always dread, but over the years, I’ve grown to accept the pain and torment, self-inflicted nonetheless. Hahaha, very sadist and machoist, but I love the ‘pain’. Well back to the training at hand, it was a terrible day to train, but it’s no excuse not to train. If the Brits who suffers such weather on a daily basis can do it, why not here in Singapore The first set was 31 seconds. That’s my VO2max training timing. I should be running faster boy! The last session I averaged 27 seconds, so I was hoping to go under that today. But that was done on a hot, dry day. No wet surfaces that might lessen my running grip like today First to third set I was worried as I couldn’t feel the lactic as I should be. I would usually feel the onset of lactic pain after the second set, so I went ‘harder’ on the fourth set … and aaaahhhh there it was. Mr Pain has emerged. It’s an unusual sort of pain, you’re panting for breath at the end of the run, but you can’t stand still to catch your breath, as the lactic will shoot-up and eat you up. So you need to move around My running form was atrocious today, one the wet surface didn’t help, and I was under two layer of outfit while running. God knows, how many extra weight of rainwater I was carrying while running
Afternoon SessionWell I woke up late after my evening nap and left the house around 8.45pm. Not wanting to miss my usual 9.30pm TV news, I did a fast one today The first part of the jog was around 11 minutes before stopping near the MRT station for some pullups. I read somewhere, Coach Hart, top quarter miler coach make his athletes do plenty of pullups for upperbody strength I did 36 pullups and pushup each before resuming my run. Next week I’ll add one more repetitions to each routine. Ended on a fast note with a short burst near the end. The run took in total 19 minutes. My heart rate was 138 when last checked and it was close to the 65% I set earlier. I made up for the short jog with intensity. The legs felt ‘tired’ from earlier session, but well adjusted for the jog. I had a nice cold ice-bath recovery …. ahhh
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