First week of track and field training

My first day of track training, training for the 1500m or 1 mile, was June 29th 2021. I'm doing what I learned from triathlon training a long time ago. I'm running and cycling zone 1 & 2 until I drop some weight and build a base. I've already increased my heart rate controlled speed. Not a ton. But I'm only 4 days of training I've increased my speed an average of 40 seconds per mile. 4 days ago I ran 2 miles averaging a 17:36 pace, warm up and cool down included. Today I ran the same distance at the same heart rate in 16:56. 

back to blogging? or switching sports?

This season I qualified and was training for the tested powerlifting national championships in July and the IPL tested world championships in November. I asked my coach to let me push harder this year in training. He said he thought that was a bad idea but he'd program it if I wanted him to. Well apparently it was a bad idea, just like he said. I got my first two lifting related injuries. Nothing terrible. A pulled glute and a pulled oblique. They were bad enough I had to bail out of the national championships. I still had time to train have a good showing at worlds though. But when I was fully healed and got back to training I found I was severely burned out with powerlifting. So after about a month of contemplating I decided to switch sports top training for the 1500 meter, or mile track and field meet. It's not too terribly out of the blue. I competed in the 2018 and 2019 New Mexico games track and field 100, 200, and shotput taking 2nd, 3rd, and 1st respectively. 

One thing I noticed was blogging about powerlifting was BORING! But for done reason blogging about endurance athletics I have always enjoyed. Now that I started endurance athletics again I guess I'll start blogging again.