Two months ago I set out to improve my poor cardio vascular fitness in preparation for climbing Kilimanjaro.
I started by jogging around the 4.5km block each day for a month, building up to the 5km race for life 4 weeks ago. Since then I have stuck to cycling, on the advice of my personal trainer, to take the pressure off my achilles which was starting to twinge.
This afternoon I decided to test how much my CV fitness has improved by jogging on the treadmill at the gym. I managed to jog for a whole hour!!! a distance of 9km. I set the treadmill up for speed interval training alternating between a jog speed of 7km per hour and a run speed of 10km per hour finishing with a 1 minute sprint at 13km per hour. The best news is that my heartrate did not exceed 140 beats per minute, this is a massive improvement because at the beginning of the year my heartate reached 180 beats per minute after 2 minutes on the cross trainer!
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together!
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