Lämmchen's Workout Thread

[Lamb]

It depends what you mean by a better workout and seeing results.

Hills are probably better for working your CV system but will naturally result in having to work harder to cover less ground more slowly.

I think with my hashimotos that harder workouts actually don't help and my body gets more inflamed.

 

[tango]

I think with my hashimotos that harder workouts actually don't help and my body gets more inflamed.

If a hilly workout does mean overdoing it then you would see better results from a more gentle workout.

 

[tango]

Speed repeats today. My suggested workout was 8-minute threshold intervals but I didn't feel like doing that. Truth be told I didn't feel like running at all after working with soundproofing material but decided to go out anyway. The first few minutes are a gentle-ish warmup, then I started running harder up the hills. It's good to get the system working hard.

 

[Lamb]

There is hunting going on at a trail that my husband and I like to hike on, so we've been avoiding that until January comes again. So we're back at our favorite county park, but I've only felt like walking the paved trail there recently. I'm finding that it's harder to walk on blacktop than the rocky trails I normally hike on.

 

[Lamb]

I finally got some new hiking shoes and I really like how lightweight they are compared to the old ones. On pavement I can walk a little faster without having all that extra weight at my feet, so I'm enjoying some of the trails I didn't like before.

 

[tango]

Not much running lately, but did a gentle 10k yesterday and another one today. Lost some time earlier in the month with a bug and then lost some more time because we went away for a few days. I'm hoping I can hit my running targets and still earn the badges on my tracker software before the month is out, but it will depend on whether the rain and snow actually appears.

 

[tango]

One of my monthly challenges is to complete a 15k run. I'm hoping I can get that done this week, the deadline is the end of the month so I'm running out of time. It doesn't have to be a fast run, just cover the distance.

In theory if I tell my watch I'm running I can walk it and it will still count, but I'd rather at least attempt to run it.

 

[tango]

I got my 15k run in, without breaking any speed records at all. It makes a bit over 35km I've run in the last three days. Perhaps it's not surprising my legs feel like dead weights right now.

 

[tango]

I still don't feel like I'm firing on all cylinders, not sure if I've still got the very tail end of whatever bug got me earlier in the month or if it's just the cold weather. I got a run in today, although it was another run-walk-run-walk thing. It's not often it takes me until this late in the month to tick off all my running challenges from my fitness tracker. Ordinarily my run would have been around 45-50 minutes but because I needed an hour of running before the end of tomorrow, and tomorrow is supposed to be colder than today, I just extended my run a little to take in an extra loop and finished it off.