Today I am going to start tracking my progress, stats, and feelings of each training day. I will be honest about my meals, feelings, and weeknesses. I am doing this because each run I begin pondering if this goal of my 100 mile ultra is even viable. Somedays I feel like I am on top of the world and others a total failure. I am mentally prepared but physically I know I am still lacking. Injuries come and go but I wonder if I am doing more harm than good. I know I am stronger today than when I started this, but just need to start documenting so I figured why not just share it with the world. So here is yesterday’s workout.
Training Duration: 2 hours
Workouts:
- 7 mile treadmill run 3% incline
- Avg Pace 11:28/mi
- Avg Hr 161
- 200 Step ups 100 each leg
- Upper body Weight Circuit to failure single set high reps
- Core work till failure
Nutrition:
- Fasted till 11:30am
- Smoked bone in Chicken Half
- Mushrooms
- Herb roasted Red Potatoes
- Cheese
- Mixed Berries
- Protein Shake w/Spinach, Kale, Blueberry, and, peanut butter
- Baked Chicken
- Mtn Ops Pre Work out Supplement
- Electrolytes – No Sugar
- Magnesium
- Antioxidants
- Mtn Ops – OX
I felt very strong during this workout, I started of slow, sluggish, and unmotivated on the run but finished happy, strong, and able to go on.
Note: this was my first hard workout coming off a 4 day backcountry 20+ mile hiking/fishing basckpack trip. The Tuesday after the trip I did a 3 mile recovery run and weight workout with a total duration 1:15
-Daniel Underbrink