Mona's Fartlek

Today Total: 12k + 15k MTB
Week Total: 22k
Month Total: 22k
Year Total: 989k

Edit: Managed to escape work today in time to squeeze in a 15k ride for another 45mins of low heartrate stuff @ 134bpm av. I would dearly have loved to have ridden for longer but alas time is a thief. My legs felt amazingly fresh considering what I put them through this morning - I'm lovin it!

Well running is a confidence game and after Saturdays mild disappointment I was hunting for a good one - enter me ole mate Mona's.

I had a ball out there this morning - my ambition was to keep all my faster efforts quicker than a 4.10 pace which except for 3 out of the 14 efforts I managed to do. The 3 errant laps were more due to lapses in concentration than fatigue as most of other 11 efforts hovered at + or - 4 seconds of 4 min pace.

Whilst I was happy with my pace this morning was particularly pleased with the last 4 x 15sec efforts as I had enough gas in the tank to progressively increase the pace:

3.56, 3.45, 3.31, 3.25 - now if I could just hold that for a full km or two or three or ten..... ;-)

For the heartrate followers out there - I pretty much stayed a smidge over the 90% mark throughout the session (20mins) as an average - sometimes dipping a little below on the recoveries and always a bit above on the efforts. Did the 6k return journey @ av 150bpm (80%).

A very enjoyable morning - I really do revel in the redline zone :-)