Heart rate training day 2: trust the system and just show up
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Ah… the glorious rest day 
I did walk to work and play some squash though… neither of those count as exercise, the former was a pleasant stroll and the latter was fun.
This morning I clocked a 63 resting heart rate to add to the 60 I collected on Monday. I should have a pretty good idea of my average resting heart rate by the end of the week.
The day off has given me a chance to think about what I want to get out of these next 16 weeks and it isn’t really what I thought it would be. Of course I want to get fitter and I wouldn’t mind losing a bit of weight but that’s not what I really, really, want.
What I’d like is to manage to put my training into the background.
Usually when I start a new training program, of any sort, I obsess over it and become very impatient for results. Results never show up immediately and that frustrates me. I’ve never learned to trust the program and just show up every day it calls for.
So, that’s the goal here: just show up, for 16 weeks, and see what happens.
Perhaps writing about my experiences and learnings will help with that. I’ve found in the past that I was most successful as a runner when I kept a log of my exercises so that when I did become impatient I could look back and see that, yes, I really was improving.
Tomorrow is a 5km(3mi) 70% “recovery” run.
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