60 min. water running
ladder
10 min. WU
1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1 min. hard w/ 1 min. easy
10 min. CD

Counted strides during the whole ladder today. My stride rate isn't fast enough which is why water running has been feeling easy to me. By definition, this means my heart rate hasn't been high enough to get the cardio workout I need. None of this is good news. Even when I verified over and over again that I was around 135-140 strides per minute, I couldn't seem to do anything about getting it up to the 156-160 that I need it to be.

Similarly, I was around 150-160 strides per minute on the elliptical yesterday. This isn't bad but it's not the 170-180 that I need to be hitting.