All is right with the world today. 6 miles on the treadmill in 49.57. I don't want to push the pace below an 8 minute mile for the first week to make sure I don't regress back into purgatory. And of course I will have to buy a heart rate monitor if I going to keep faith with the MAF training.
One other bonus to the MAF training (other than the hope that it actually works) is that I don't freak out about the wildly fluctuating differences between rests on endurance machines at health clubs. The Lifecycle at Planet Fitness had me expelling 150 more calories for a 60 minute workout than the one at 24 hour. I care deeply about these numbers but if i just worry about my heart rate it won't matter.
One thing I will concede to Mike and CFE is that it takes more heart to do his workouts than mine. Given that I do pretty much the same thing other day (alternating run and lift), the workouts aren't too scary whereas he has no idea what's in store tomorrow. It is a downer for me because part of the allure of training is proving your machismo. There is a downside to my laser like scientific approach.
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