Intervals and Crossfit

To be fully honest, I do not like Interval training. I would much rather do a long run and see lots of stuff. That’s just me. But I’ve been told that long slow distances make long slow runners. And I can’t deny the truth of that. So on Wednesday morning I pulled up the nerve to actually go out for a 10km interval run; 500m run, 500m walk, repeated 10 times.
Data can be found here.
To be quite honest, it was really fun. It was dark and I was wearing a headlamp, and I was just really running anywhere I could in town. I startled many people by traipsing past them with my VFFs, shorts and Tshirt and headlamp early in the morning. Boy, what a nut I am.

This is taken from the Farmer’s Market parking lot where I started my run. I am experimenting with my camera to allow me to take shots at night and while I run.

Not bad, and getting better. Orion is an awesome constellation, but I think Cassiopeia is far cooler!

The run was good! All my intervals were at my target pace of 4:00 to 4:30, except one. The reason for it was stairs. Since it was so early in the morning, the wooden stairs were frosty and slippery, so I had to mope up them. No biggie though. It’s not like I am out there to beat anything. But I know if I keep up the interval training, I will become a faster runner and some of those goals may come to fruition.

Following my run, I headed over to Crossfit Cochrane for a workout. We mostly practiced some olympic lifts, and I took the time to record M attempts the snatch.

I thought his form is pretty good. He’s teaching me all this stuff, but I guess every once in a while I notice something. Nothing here though.

That’s about it. I am off to do some guinea pigging for Garmin which is always fun!

:-)