Floating tranning week

I will now restart my old trainning schedule. but because I have not time to follow strictly the schedule I will try to do all the runs but without doing it at a fixed day, like it is marked on schedule. I will do, for instance, in one week that I have do do one long run, two free pace runs and one repetition trainning; I will do it not exacly by the order in the schedule, neitheir with the rest days in schedule but I will try do to all the runs. I know this is far way to following the schedule, but with my current free time this is the best I can do.


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Aptonia CW700 - first

These are the first impressions after my first training with my new heart rate monitor Aptonia CW700. This is a HRM of Decathlon. The setup is very easy: it's possible to configure a lot of parameters about myself like min and max pulse or age, weight, etc. With both ways the watch stores the maximum recomended pulse of the person, and for further uses the monitor displays the result in beats per minute in big numbers and in percent of the maximum rate in smaller digits. The comunication between the chest belt and the watch is good and quickly the watch starts to give real heart pulse.
The functions of the chronometer are good for this type of watch. It is possible to memorize 20 laps, as intermediate time count and the main time continues counting in the background. The watch have 4 bank of memory to store 4 runs data: 20 laps times, and all other data per memory bank. Each bank could be read after the run at the end of the day in a separate watch mode, the Chrono Data mode.
For now just a problem: sometimes the watch give me a anormal peak of my heart rate. I think this is because my chest belt is not tight enought and the sensor loses and reconnect again and this cause the anormal peaks. For next run I will check this...

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My new hear race monitor

I bougth today my first heart rate monitor. It is a Aptonia CW700 (Aptonia is a mark of Decathon). Now I'm exploring the features of my new toy! The only difference from the kids to the adult people is that the adults bought more expensive toys!! I bought this for two main reasons: the heart rate monitor to start monitoring my runs and also for the chonometer features, because the watch I usaly use only give me the time spent from the begining and I also need the lap memory function and the intermediate counter to use during my races (or tranning) to check my km pace.
Now I'm trying to find out how can I disable the sound emitted every heart beat.

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Francis Obikwelu - second gold medal

The Portuguese Francis Obikwelu won yesterday the second gold medal in the European Atlethics Championship in Gotheburg. He was the first on 200 metres with 20.01 seconds. The second - Swede Johan Wissman - only arrived 0.37 later! :) Briton Marlon Devonish was third. Congratulatiosn again Francis Obikwelu.

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Francis Obikwelu

From road running to track running, to say that Francis Obikwelu won yesterday the golden medal for Portugal in the men's 100 metres sprint at the European Championships in Gothenburg, with the time of 9,99 seconds. Today he will try to win also in 200m to became the first to win both races in a European Championship. Andrey Yepishin(Russia) was second with 10.10 and Matic Osovnikar (Slovenia) was third with 10.14. Congratulations Francis Obikewlu!

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Slow runners

I found this funny movie clip on the Passion for Running blog. Mark said that you are never running slow :)

Back to the training

Now I'm planning to resume the training. I never stop running, but in the last months I use to run just one or two times a week, without any trainning plan, so I always ran slowly: everytime I run without a goal, I run just for fun and so my performance always drop a lot!! Now I will try to back to my last training schedule I posted in this blog and I never finish it. The goal is to do an haslf-marathon in two months.

feeds clip

I put on my blog a clip of my reading feeds marked with label 'run' through Google Reader. Currently I'am reading the following blogs: A passion for running, Robert Song's Running, Sean Loyd blog

Chondromalacia - knee of runner

from atletas.net

To Chondromalacia, more known by knee of runner, is a sporting wound whose gradual form increase pain.

The symptoms of this illness are normally the pain or sensibility nearby or below the kneecap in the breaks frontal or lateral of the knee. The pain is gradual, generally in an alone knee, and increase during several weeks. To cartilagem of the patela - below the kneecap. erodes-itself, stayed as went a sandpaper, doing sounds of ground.

The causes of this illness can have that see with several factors, as: run about a slope or slope; do not carry out the heating correctamente; have the quadríceps too tense, weak or tired; kneel; have the jarrete tense or excessively strong; go up or come down stairs or slopes; stayed sat down by long hours; or to him run too fortress without the due heating.

The prevention of this illness does itself across of the adequate use of sapatilhas of run that insert well, using orthopedic for improve inserts him of the foot. Also it can avoid the sprouting of this illness performing a reduction of the activities ciclistas during the training, or a bigger rhythm with smaller resistance. Do a complete heating, without forget no part of the body, incluíndo exercises of strengthening of the quadríceps, lengthening them, as well like the jarretes and panturrilhas. Is going to bend too the knees.

The handling of this alone illness functions to obtain diagnose the illness well early, and begin at once it do him. Find his doctor, do a Ray-X for verify erodes of the surface of the articulation. The swimming or. run in the swimming pool. can help, as well like a kneepad with an opening for the kneecap.

Naide Gomes with a new NR for Portugal

Naide Gomes was third in women's long jump World Indoor Championship. Tatyana Kotova, of Russia, won with 7.00m from Tianna Madison, second with a personal best of 6.80m, with Portugal’s Naide Gomes third with a national record of 6.76m.