Preparation
Alright…I am actually holding to my one-week downtime, much as it’s killing me to not be working on the weight training portion of my usual fitness routine. I am still running every other day. At the moment, I am running 3.75 miles in about 35 minutes, which puts me back on my 10K in one hour pace. Of course, I’d like to improve that, but it will come soon enough.
My running consists of 1-minute intervals at approx. 8.5 mi/hr, alternating with 30-second intervals of 4 mi/hr. This has really helped build up my endurance (I started at 8 mi/hr, and worked up), and I’ve been told it also helps extend the fat-burning process later in the day.
