Exercise: - What : interval walk
- Time: 26 minutes (!!!)
- Distance: 1.6 miles
- Minutes/mile: 16.25
Can I get a WOOHOO? I had an AWESOME walk today! I used the interval setting on my new watch and finished the 1.6 mile loop over 1 minute faster than I have ever done it before! It brought down my min/mile to 16.25! And that is an average min/mile, including a "brisk" 5 minute warm up and 5 minute cool down.
It was great. I did a brisk walk to warm up while I was on the main road. It took almost exactly 5 minutes to get to the neighborhood road. I started the interval mode when I turned on the neighborhood road and did 1 minute "super fast", followed by 2 minutes "regular fast". During the super fast portion, I took smaller strides, swung my arms faster and walked faster. I was breathing really hard during those minutes. During the normal fast periods, I lengthened my stride, got my breathing under control, and walked my normal fast pace. It took me 5 and a half sets to get back to the main road where I stopped swinging my arms, but still walked briskly home. After I got home I stretched. I am so excited about doing intervals now. I feel like they will be the key to going faster. I know i can't maintain my super fast pace all the way around the loop, but it was easy enough to keep it up for a minute at a time, knowing i would have 2 minutes to catch my breath.
WOOHOO!
# posted by amy @ 5:15 PM
