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Category Archives: Fitness
Half Marathon Training Day #9: Swimming.
Today is a cross-training day and took the opportunity to test my heart rate monitor in pool. It’s been a while since my last session in the pool and took it relatively easy to get the cobwebs out. Had flashbacks to my Pier to Pub Training.
Session:
16 50m laps over 22 min:
2 lap warm up
3×4 lap with 60 sec rest
2 lap cool down
Results:
Average Heart Rate: 138
Max Heart Rate: 160
Calories Burned: 279
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Half Marathon Training Day #8: Interval Training
A cold and wintry day greeted my interval training session. Felt good early, but was sucking in the O2 at the end.
Session:
Warm-up
1,000m Run
60 sec Walk
1,500m Run
120 sec Walk
1,000m Run
Cool-Down
Total time 27:48
Results:
* Average Heart Rate: 161
* Max Heart Rate: 180
* Calories Burned: 491
Half Marathon Training Day #7: 8.4km Slow Jog
Today is an “easy” 8km jog. Nothing easy about it; legs were still saw from the run on Day #5. Due to the slowness of the run (9.16 km/hr) I was able to take my GPS enabled BlackBerry: I also … Continue reading
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Tagged altitude, chart, excel, gps, half marathon, logger, speed, training
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Half Marathon Training Day #6: Weights
To give my legs a break, today was upper body weight training.
Session:
Stationary Bike, Bench Press, Seated Row, Shoulder Press, Hammer Curl, Triceps.
Results:
* Average Heart Rate: 117
* Max Heart Rate: 138
* Calories Burned: 330
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Half Marathon Training Day #5: 15km Run
Today was a big run – 15km along the Dandenong Creek and Eastlink Trail. I was a little slow (average speed 9.57 km/hr) but not bad for my first long run in a few months.
Session:
15km run in 1 hour 34 minutes.
Results:
* Average Heart Rate: 167
* Max Heart Rate: 176
* Calories Burned: 1,758
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Tagged dandenong creek, eastlink, half marathon, training
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Half Marathon Training Day #4: A Walk with My Family
It was supposed to be a rest day, but went for a walk with Mel and Ava to the nearby duck pond. I decided to test out the GPS functionality of my Blackberry, so I decided to download a GPS logger. I configured it to log GPS co-ordinates every second and to export to a KML file format. This was the result.
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Session:
54 min walk.
Results:
Average Heart Rate: forgot my heart rate monitor (again)
Max Heart Rate: forgot my heart rate monitor (again)
Calories Burned: 220 (est)
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Half Marathon Training Day #3: 8km Hills
Hills on the treadmill at the gym today watching the top 10 music countdown on Channel V. Interesting note: the top 5 spots were all collaborations. I’m sure there is a management theory somewhere in that. Session: 8km hills on … Continue reading
