Week Five Evaulation

This week was the fifth week of my six week training programme. I ran on the days Monday and Friday and attended the gym on days Tuesday and Thursday. The other days were my resting periods.

Last weeks goal was:
Run 8km over the two days that I am at the forest recreation ground.

This weeks goal is:
Run 9km over the two days that I am at the forest recreation ground (4.5km each day)

On Monday and Friday I ran 4.5km each day.

On Monday I ran 4.5km. 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 didn't succeed with this as I wanted to complete the session in 1 hour and it took me 1 hour and 30 minutes. I set a mini goal within this week to successfully complete the session plan in the 1 hour that will be allocated. I found the training session quite easy today as I was committed to finishing the run and wanted to make sure that I pushed myself to the limit.

On Friday I ran 4.5km. I found the training session easier than on Monday and I moved closer to the 1 hour goal as on this day it took me 1 hour and 15 minutes compared to the 1 hour and 30 minutes it took me on Monday.

I set my target to run 9km this week as I think that this was a reasonable distance to run over 2 days as I have been increasing the distance by 1km each week. This was my fifth week of the training programme and I was adapting to the distances that I have been running and the intensities of the training session. I found the distance to run on Monday quite easy as I was commited to completing the run and wanted to make sure that I pushed myself to the max. Last week I ran 8km over the 2 days that I was at the forest recreation ground and this week I have increased the distance by 1km. I feel that an extra 0.5km to run this week will improve my cardiovascular endurance further and therefore I will be one step closer to my overall goal.

On Tuesday I was at the gym. Here I did the same training session as I did last week; this is because I found it difficult last week so I didn't want to increase the intensity of the work out when I couldn't cope with the previous one. However, last week I must have just been tired as today I found the training session suitable for my ability; this is good for my body as it will train my heart rate and increase my cardiovascular endurance.

On Thursday I found the training session suitable for my ability. I found the training session suitable as I did the same training session as I did on Tuesday; this is good for my body as it will train my heart rate and increase my cardiovascular endurance. I found the training session easy as my muscles are getting used to the intensity of the work out as this was the fourth time that I'd done it. Therefore I will be increasing the intensity for the last week of my macrocycle to really push my ability and prove to myself that my cardiovascular endurance has improved.

Next Week I will be improving my goals set so that my cardiovascular endurance can increase and become closer to the overall goal that I have set for myself.