Friday Thoughts 101

Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Thoughts, let’s get into it.

HRV TRend

I’m happy to report my HRV has been trending in the right direction. As it gets settled within the baseline, my resting heart rate has finally dropped into its normal range too. This was a long ordeal. So long you can see my baseline even shifted down slightly.

October Challenge

This month’s challenge workout is a doozy. Most people—even amongst the fire breathers of GAIN—won’t be able to finish it. It’s just a lot of reps, in a short period of time with heavy dumbbells. I thought my score of 8:41 would have held up against everyone, until Nate Kingsley visited. Nate beat me by more than a minute in an impressive display of benching prowess. He made the 50 pound dumbbells look like toys. Impressive effort Nate!

Here’s the workout:

3 Rounds for Time:
500m c2 bike
25 db bench press @ 50s/25s
250m row
11-minute time cap

Cold Running

I had a hard time figuring out my layering on yesterday’s run. It was in the low 50s, but with very strong winds. It was nice in the sun, but in the shade of the trees with the wind whipping it was much colder. I opted for shorts and a light windbreaker with a hood. As I walked away from the truck I grabbed gloves too, and took them off about 1 minute later when I started climbing up the hill. I felt out of practice layering and it made me miss running in the long days of summer.

That’s it for this week. Have a good one!

—Justin Miner