Lactic endurance training

Now that my aerobic fitness and endurance is getting back to something better than awful aerobic fitness i decided it was time to start work again on lactic endurance. So this morning's work out:

Jog to baseball diamond (2 minutes)

Dynamic stretching (2 minutes)

Sprint recovery - 20 secs flat out sprint, 1 minute walk, 1 minute jog - x5

Walk 1 minute, Jog 1 minute, Walk 1 minute, Jog 1 minute, Walk 1 minute

Sprint recovery - 20 secs flat out sprint, 1 minute walk, 1 minute jog - x5

Jog home

Static stretching (2 minutes)

It didn't feel too bad though I've definitely got some muscle burn happening (especially quads).

I had Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy on the iPod which seems particularly apt given the state of my ankle.

Masks - Armistice Day 1944

I'm posting this slightly out of sequence because of the appropriateness for today.

The poem is Walter Strachan's Armistice Day 1944. The illustration is a photo-etching by Peter Rhoades. Both taken from Masks as described yesterday.

masks9, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

masks8, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.