When no one is watching

It’s easier to quit when no one is watching. Or alternatively, when no one is watching, what you do matters the most. Today’s workout was

• Seven rounds of 3 mins sprint and 2 mins walk/jog

Let’s say I almost quit after the first set. Then the next set. Then the subsequent set. On my second to last set, I sat on a bench and called it quits. Until my rest time was up and I decided to finish the final set.

Before going into how I felt, let’s look at the stats:

As before, my heart rate was off the chart once again. At first, the game plan was to keep the pace under 07:30. I definitely regretted that decision.

So as you can see, after the first set, I decided to go at a pace that was best suited for my bpm. It appears that my 3 mins pace was at or about 0.38 mile pace, with an average bpm of high 160s.

Definitely spent way too long at the holy-smokes-I’m-going-to-die time in Zone 5.

Whoop couldn’t even trace my peak heart rate because it was so high. I think the lessons learned from this workout is that I need to pace myself and can’t go all out from the get-go.

The more important take away from this workout was that I didn’t quit. No matter how many times I said “that’s it I’m done”.