Couple of days away from home and no time to run. Came back and did a 1.5 lap around the park.

Broke no records with this, and at 5:55, was slower than my last run of 5:27. Weather didn’t help though, at nearly 25C

Did another lap around the park, but went clockwise instead of anti-clockwise.

And beat my PB for that way around the park.

Pace was 5:22. Previous PB was 5:35.

Next task is to get to two laps around that park, which should take me to about 4-4.5km.

A quick lap around the park. Felt fast and good, but it turns out I was a 5:27, 0:08 slower than my best time. But the chart looks good:

The pace/HR chart also looks okay. Speed (top line) drops at corners, as expected. The last drop is when I’m turning two corners, and I’m under trees, so the GPS probably dropped out.

The HR (bottom line) was fairly stable between 155 and 170 bpm.

After several days of hot weather, it’s cooled down enough for me to get running again. Did my 3k lap and stopped part way to check out the new Leisure Centre that’s opened in New Barnet. 5:50 min/km pace.

A hot day today, 30degC in fact, did one lap around the park, and the sweat was pouring, not from exertion, but from the heat.

Also I’ve noticed. Those dips you see in the chart? They are when I’m turning a sharp corner. I guess since I’m not sprinting through the corner, the GPS logs it as a slow speed. Interesting fact I’ll have to bear in mind for future.

What’s even more interesting, is that FitBit logs the run slightly differently

You can see the dips here too, but definitely not as extreme as the one in Strava.

One lap again today, temperature was getting high and looks like it’s going to be quite high over the bank holiday weekend.

One lap around the park, and made a pretty good pace today: 5:20 min/km and I wasn’t really pushing hard. Record for the lap was 5:19 min/km, so I was ONE SECOND short of matching my PB for the lap