[Assaf Farran]

Scott, thank you for the response and the tips.

It may indeed be that I’ve been running on an incorrect expectation of what this should feel like in the legs (compared to what I know really hard leg work feels like in the gym).

 

To clarify a bit further, I did not persist with a 50% of bw load as that felt too heavy on shoulders and neck, so more like 35% of bw + ankle weights.

I also wasn’t paying any attention to the HR – until the moment I realized I am really struggling to intuitively find the ‘highest pace I can sustain’ and wanted to have some non-subjective reference to ‘how hard I’m going’ that I can use to compare the different attempts to find the recipe.

In any case, I take your points and will try to approach the next ME sessions with a goal of just seeing how much vertical I can cover with this weight at a pace I can hold for the duration – without such a focus on ‘how are my legs feeling’ – and then pay attention to progression between sessions as you suggest.

I’ll try and update this thread in a week or two with my experience just in case it ends up being useful to someone else.

 

Thanks again ! Much appreciated