Training's paying off

Well, the past few week's training has been working after a successful training run up and down South Stack Steps today.  A total of 1,600 steps up and 1,600 steps down, although the stopwatch was only timing the way up.  Average time for each set of 400 steps is 3 mins 40 seconds.  This time is a steady pace up the steps and not an all out rush.  

Here is my intro below, apologies for the poor sound quality though, recent videos have been much louder!

I met up with Richard and his family at South Stack, who came along to watch me train.  The weather was much clearer compared to last week and less wind too.

There were more people around, partly because of the improved weather, and I passed a few people on the way down as well as up.  There was one guy who went up and down twice, even his young son managed to go up and down once!.  My first trip down and up the steps was a warm up, followed by stretching the lower part of the body. After stretching the first of three timed runs up were recorded.  The heart rate was 185bpm but recovery was very good, with only a few minutes was all that was required.

The starting point for the steps is right at the base of the steps and I decided to make a short video half way down the steps to show how steep some sections are.


Aerobic capacity has improved over the last week, and this was demonstrated with a better average time of 3mins 40 on all three timed runs.

There will be another timed run in the next 7 days, after which specific training will taper and carb loading will begin.