This morning I wanted to do some interval training. When I woke up at 8:20am, my legs still felt really tired from yesterday's training. And it was raining outside. And it looked cold. Enough reasons to stay in bed, but when I got up 20min later I put on my running clothes and got ready. I only had a few crackers before the run, just to get something in my stomach and headed out into the rain. The first 15min was warm-up and I got to feel which muscles still hurt. And there were a few :) but after a while it was ok so I was ready for my 4 x 800m intervals with a 2min recovery jog in between (or 4 x 4min as I don't have a GPS). I started the first 4min a bit slower than I normally would and it was hard enough with all these aching muscles. The next two intervals went ok but I got side stitches in the last one. However, I did the last one faster than the ones before and really pushed my body to the limit, it felt gooood :). After the 4 intervals I jogged back home and did my 15min cool-down, but got side stitches again, so bad I had to walk in between.
All in all I was happy with the training cos first of all, last night I seriously thought I wouldn't go jogging this morning cos my muslces were so sore and second it felt good to do some speed workout in the rain.
For lunch we had pancakes (perfect post-run meal :)) and later we went shopping. I bought some new exercise shorts for cheap so that was good :).
When we got home it was already 4:30pm though and I was soooo tired from training this morning and walking around the shops that I really couldn't be bothered to do exercises. But still, I got changed and once I started it was ok. I did a 5min warm-up on the wind trainer, 75min exercises for my waist, abs, back and arms and a 10min cool-down. I made sure it didn't hurt my legs any more so I think I did good :).
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