This is the running post agan after 4 years. Mainly due to lack of event that I joined in 2019 and no event organized during the year of 2020 and 2021 due to COVID. Starting 2022, running event started again.
However, in 2021, only virtual running events were being organized. For the last 2~3 Virtual HM, I find it harder and hard to complete it. Thus, I decided to follow a free trainng plan. Garmin Training plan was chosen since I am using Garmin watch.
Throughout the whole training plan, I did follow more than 90% of the training, except for cross training. The training that I skipped was due to either raining or personal engagement. Out of 80 trainings, only 2 activities that I skipped due to personal reason.
By following Garmin Training plan, I managed to increase my weekly mileage to more than 30km without serious pain. Previously, when I run on myself, whenever I reached weekly mileage of 20km, I started to feel pain at my leg.
There are 2 main differences between the training plan and I run by myseft. Firstly, the training plan ask for cool down (walk) of 5~10 mins after each training session that I didn't do that when I run myself. Secondly, there are variety of running style, Interval, Easy, etc in Garmin Training Plan while I always run at almost the same pace when I run myself. These are the 2 main different that I am able to log more than 30km per week, I think.
Although I am not able to improve my time after joining the Garmin Training Plan, but I didn't feel out of breath by running with this pace, not like a few HMs before. I guess this is the improvement from the plan.
Following is the HR vs Pace for HM from my available data, ie. 10.6sec/km improvement for 5s increase in HR.
