Walking 25:00 [2] ** 2.3 km (10:52 / km) +105m 8:51 / km
ahr:125 max:160 shoes: R-Reebok Light Blue
Did some mapping at McKaig (2km, 52 minutes), then briskly walked a loop of the time trial course. Took a few pseudo-running steps. The L-hamstring muscle belly definitely feels weak/sore in places when I do this hard walking, and a bit on the strength training too, but aside from that it's not doing too badly - e.g. it's fine afterwards, esp. with a little stretching & icing.
If I can start running again, and just have this mild stuff, I'll be fine with that. And hopefully that will even go away with a slowly increasing volume of low intensity training.
I'm actually wondering if (after ramping up for a few weeks) it would be better to run 10-15 minutes, 2x a day, than, the same total volume, every other day. Put more generally, as I (or anyone for that matter) ramps up their training, should they work up to running, say 60 minutes, 3x/week, or, if time permits, should they start out 10-14 workouts per week, but just keep them lower volume?
The reasons I wonder this are
(a) because that's what's apparently working (and recommended) for the strength training - 2x/day, high volume, (and thus lower intensity than if I did less), and
(b) that's what real athletes do.
Refining this somewhat, I may (time permitting) even aim for this 2x/day workout, but with something harder every other day, or every 3rd day.
Strength 11:00 [1]
AM set, at 4PM... - 5+5+3 of the 1-legged out/back's. More than planned, but that's because I standardized on keeping my non-active leg bent, which make this exercise a bit easier than trying to keep it straight. Make sense to me to keep this a little easier and work on form & volume, and then work to change it to other-leg-straight after I hit full volume (3x15, 2x/day, each leg)