📷 Day 14 of the April Photoblogging Challenge
Cactus
🏃♂️ Classic spring weather on today’s run: started with rain and then cleared up into a sunny day 🌧️🕶️
📷 Day 13 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: Page
📷 Day 10
Morning commute on the train
📷 Day 9
Crispy
Finished reading: Although it took two library loan periods, I made it through The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan. Having made it this far, I’m sure to get through all of the books now, even though there are many to go 📚
📷 Day 08
Prevention
📷 Day 07
Signs of spring in my backyard helps with well being
📷 Day 06
Windy
🍺 Collective Arts Hazy State Session IPA
📷 Day 05
Serene
Finished reading: If you want a very detailed resource on how to do CBAs, especially for public sector projects, Cost-benefit analysis of investment decisions by Glenn Jenkins, Chun-Yan Kuo, and Arnold Harberger is the book for you. That said, you really need to want details – you’ve been warned 📚
📷 Day 04
Foliage
📷 Day 03
A well targeted card from my children
🏃♂️ New running shoe day
📷 Day 02
Flowers
📷 Day 1: Toy
Finished reading: I can’t decide if I liked Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. The first book of the series, Gideon the Ninth, was one of my favourite books of 2021. The second, Harrow the Ninth, was frustratingly confusing. Nona was similarly challenging: lots of names, hints of conversations, and plot twists. Felt more like work than entertainment 📚
🏃♂️ Dynamic run training in Training Today
Sunday, March 24, 2024
I’ve been using Training Today for a while now to track my readiness to train (RTT). They’ve recently released a new feature that provides dynamic training for running based on RTT which takes into account your current recovery and health to make sure you don’t overtrain.
Generating the workouts is easy. In the iPhone app, you choose the type of run (speed, endurance, recovery, etc) and then the app shows you the structured workout, targeting your current RTT. There are options to adjust the RTT (though that seems like cheating) and to shorten the run, if you’re pressed for time. Once you select “Create Workout”, the run is sent to your Apple Watch.
On the watch, the Training Today workout shows up near the top of the list in the Workout app and behaves like any other workout. The interval times and heart rate zones with alerts are passed along, making it easy to follow the workout.
There are a few obvious enhancements, which the developers have already promised. The first is the addition of cycling and swimming workouts. The second is creating actual fitness plans across multiple days.
I’m really intrigued by an app like Training Today. Our smartwatches are continuously monitoring us and tracking our fitness. Why not have them also program tailored workouts? That said, I have an actual triathlon coach that creates a comprehensive fitness plan while also providing expert advice and motivation. My watch isn’t this sophisticated — yet.
🏃♂️ Part of today’s trail run was mostly made of broken bricks
