Here’s a few details about the race missions part of the latest ZR2 update if you haven’t read the blog entry references in this post.
The race missions as the name suggests are different to the normal Season 1 and Season 2 missions in that they are not time-based. They are distance based so you must travel a certain distance to trigger the next audio clip.
Race missions are in an entire section of their own, and fill in gaps between Season 1 and Season 2.
There are different race lengths - 5K, 10K, 20K (near half marathon distance)
There are two main types of tracking in this mode -- GPS and Accelerometer. Gyro will also be an option if your device supports (newer devices). Accelerometer is for people running on treadmills.
If you have GPS enabled, then the app will use that to track your distance. If you don't (e.g. you're on a treadmill), then you will have to tell the app how to guesstimate the distance you have travelled, and it uses pace time for that. For example, for me, a walk is 10 min/km, a light jog is 7 min/km, moderate jog is 6 min/km a light run is 5 min/km and fast run 4:30-5:00 min/km.
I haven't tried the race missions yet, but I'll be giving them a go when I've finished all Season 2 missions. I've caught up on the main story missions, and have just started on the side missions.
It was quite amusing to see the reaction on my colleagues' faces at work when I told them I’d done 17.22 km over the weekend. It’s so satisfying to be able to say “I did something you haven’t done yet”
Next step is to take it up a notch to a full HM distance.
My body is aching, my legs are hurting, but I feel GREAT! 17.22 km (10.70 miles), 2 hours. Another few km and I’ll hit Half Marathon distance. And I broke several records on today’s run:
Calories burned in one session (1338 calories) - ironically, my calorie target is 1500 calories per day, so this run almost burned my entire calorie allowance.
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The Poppy Run is a national series of 5km fun runs in support of The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. I'm going to take part in one. It's only 5K so it's an easy distance.
Venues and dates for 2013:
Saturday 26th October:
SUFFOLK: Rendlesham Forest
Sunday 27th October:
BEDFORDSHIRE: Forest of Marston Vale
BIRMIGHAM: Kingsbury Water Park
DERBY: Pride Park
HERTFORDSHIRE: Welwyn Garden City
KENT: Dymchurch
LEICESTERSHIRE: Hicks Lodge (nr Ashby de la Zouch)
I have four weeks left of my training - well, 3 1/2, actually. On the last week, I’m going to take an extra day off, and then do a 21K run. This week, 17.2K, next week 17.4K, week after that, 19.8K, week after that (final week), 21K.
Of course, this assumes I don’t have to cancel due to bad weather….
A satisfying workout. I broke the 6:00min/km average pace today, and almost broke 30 mins for the whole 5K. Pretty pleased with this. I’m hitting yellow more and more often now, so I’m able to push myself better now.
I’m actually pleased somewhat with this. I was able to get below 6:00 min/km for several km, but couldn’t keep that pace, so I’ll need to work on that.
This week’s long run is 90 minutes, and I’m going to try a new route that is slightly longer than the route I took last week, but hopefully shouldn’t hit any pavement-less roads. It’s a 15.61KM route so I should be pretty shattered by the time I’m done.
Next week’s long run is also 90 minutes, then 95 minutes, then 100 minutes, then 100 again, and then the training ends the week after. If I can do 100 minutes at a pace of around 7:00 min/km (slow pace), then a half marathon will take me 147.7 minutes, or about 2.5 hours. I can average about 6:40 now, so that will make the half marathon time close to 2 hours if I can keep that pace up.
I’ll probably run the 15.61KM tomorrow, and gauge how far I can get in the 90 minutes. If I finish ahead of target, then I’ll use another route I have planned, which is 17KM. I also have a 19KM route planned, and a full Half Marathon route planned, so if I get faster, I can use those.
Unfortunately, adidas have updated their site. Now I can’t seem to find the image to link into the post, so I’m going to have to resort to screenshots instead…
A different 5K route today, and it’s slightly longer than 5K, but more flat, so I was able to hit a faster-than-normal pace, and keep it going for a while. So well, in fact, that I touched the top of Green during the run, on more than one occasion. And, I’ve shaved off 90 seconds off my last run’s pace (~8min/km), and around 30 seconds off my average (~7min/km).
According to Endomondo, my current bests are:
Cooper (12 min): 2.46 km
One hour: 9.6 km
1 km: 4m:44s
1 mile: 7m:42s
3 miles: 25m:38s
5 km: 26m:33s
10 km: 1h:02m:40s
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The Poppy Run is a national series of 5km fun runs in support of The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. I'm going to take part in one. It's only 5K so it's an easy distance.
