Monday 6th December Week 4.

MONDAY WEEK FOUR GOAL: RUN 4KM

Today I was at the Forest Recreation Ground. I ran a distance of 4km (3.5 times around the perimetre of the feild). I did this to improve my cardiovascular endurance as running increases my heart rate and adapts it to higher levels of exercise. As a result this improves my cardiovascular endurance, allowing me to participate in exercise for a long period of time without becoming tired or exhausted.

I found the training session really hard. I think this is because I am not yet used to running theses distances and therefore my muscles were unable to full fill the training sessions needs. I also think that I am getting bored when running as when I'm at the gym I am kept entertained. Next week I will try to motivate myself by listening to music while I run. Even though I found it hard I was able to maintain a constant running/jogging pace and I did not stop throughout the whole session. When I am next at the Forest Recreation Ground on Friday I will try to maintain a constant jogging speed for the whole training session. If I am able to do this, it will show that my cardiovascular endurance has improved and therefore I am moving forward towards my goal.

Please find the circuit that I ran on this post. I created this using http://www.mapmyrun.com/.

Please find below the link for my training session plan for today:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B900fVT4L1W8OTg5YWI3NjctNjFlYy00MDRhLTgyZWUtMWU3ZmFjM2RiYTkx&hl=en&authkey=CIn3g7oI