More intervals and sailing

This morning I did the intervals from New Rules. The intervals are 1 minute hard, 2 minutes recovery for four times. I got up around 8 min/mi for the hard sections, which is pretty fast for me. After the fourth hard section, I had to walk for two minutes before jogging again. Looking at the heart rate track, I think the HRM had problems at times. I know I got over 180bpm. When I finished the fourth hard run, I looked down and it read 160bpm! No way! I was basically sprinting. (It's all relative, right? Some people can run distances at that speed or faster!) I'll have to wear the strap tighter next time. After the first interval I realized that I had messed up the workout setup on the Garmin, so I walked a bit fiddling. Then I just said "heck with it" and continued. It worked fine timing the intervals using the lap button.

I've been having a hard time using the Garmin Fitness plugin for SportTracks to load workouts onto the Garmin. Luckily, right now, only the intervals are special for me, and the Garmin has a way to really easily enter intervals. I thought I had done this, but then I noticed it was on bicycling, so I switched to running. I guess that switch reset the workout. Oh well. I'm learning!

Heart rate and pace for the interval run

Later on in the morning, my husband and I took the kids out on the sailboat. It was a beautiful day for a sail. We knew it was going to get too windy, so we made sure we got off the lake before that happens. It's no fun to be out in high winds with the kids. Scary. So, I wore the Garmin for the sail. Toward the end, the GPS must have been a bit off because it has us ending on the shore, but we were definitely returning to the dock! It was interesting to see how fast we were going, something we don't normally get to know. We were out for about an hour and covered about 4.4 miles. The kids had a great time.

Sailing