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Notes -
I finally did my first proper continuous run of 30min (4km).
Admittedly this is the opposite of a humble-brag: it's being excessively excited about a mediocre achievement. But before this I'd only been able to do intervals of 1/2/3 mins before running out of puff, so I'm pleased with it.
I hadn't run at all really for about 10 years beyond catching buses and things, so I had to taper up from 1m:2m run:walk to 2:2 to 3:1 over a few weeks, with my HR spiking to 160/170bpm during the running phases.
The main thing that helped this time was the advice to keep my mouth clamped firmly shut. It meant that I regulated my running to my breathing/HR rather than the alternative. Was still up to 166bpm at the end though.
Going to try alternating between this and my usual intervals for the next few weeks and see what happens.
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