Training Update: Progress! New Milestones and Future Plans
Today I finished my longest training run so far (10 miles) and my first 5-day training week. This ends a particularly productive 3-week period of training, where I was able to execute all my planned workouts. The "tread striders" workout I've described before (30 seconds of increased speed with 1:30 jog rest intervals) has been paying off. The first time I did that workout a few months ago I topped out at 7 mph. During my last tread striders workout, I did the last 6 repeats at 9 mph (6:40/mile). My form is holding up. Looking at my data on Garmin Connect, I can see that my stride actually looks much better in terms of left/right balance when I'm running faster (green and yellow points on graph below). I'm still spending much more time on my left (uninjured) leg when I run slowly (red points on the graph). I'm thinking of running a half-marathon in December. I was going to ditch the tread striders temporarily and try to do some maxVO2 running (with the help o