One lap around the park today. Nice weather, and Strava logs it as 5:46 min/km and “consistent effort”, though I had to drop to a walk to waddle through a puddle of water from the recent rains.
Category Archives: Fitness & Health
Training – 13th August 2019
Went on a different route today. Decided to aim for 3km and did it, averaging 5:44 min/km, with my PB on the same route being 5:22 min/km.
First run in a long while that I’m actually pleased with. I broke no records in this run, but no matter.
Training – 11th August 2019
Finally did my 1.5 laps and it was hard.
Surprisingly, Strava logged me as doing one my faster runs, clocking at 5:39 min/km, with my fastest over the same lap is 5:19 min/km
Training – 10th August 2019
Another one lap around the park, dropped to walk several times, disappointing :(
Training – 5th August 2019
Made another one-lap. Picked a running playlist from Spotify to run too. Seemed to help.
First song was Pharrell’s Happy and the last one was Backstreet Boys.
Cheesy and Corny, but definitely runnable.
Training – 4th August 2019
Made another one-lap around the park today. Faster average speed than yesterday. Tomorrow, I’ll try 1.5 laps.
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Training 3rd August 2019
Went running today, made one lap around my local park pretty comfortably, but my left ankle started to hurt. The same ankle I had a fractured metatarsal on a few years back. Here’s hoping it isn’t serious.
A few hours later it’s eased up, since I’m not putting pressure on it.
I wonder if maybe the cushioning on my shoes aren’t up to par now. Maybe I need to gait test again.
Today’s run, since I’m no longer using Endomondo’s training runs, I did the lap using a constant run, average pace was around 6:07 min/km.
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Training – 28th July 2019
After a stupidly long time without running, I’m back at it. Did a lap of the park and I utilised a new app on my FitBit watch, which lets you set a target time and distance and gives you a running “partner” running at that pace to run against. So in this picture, I’m 22 seconds ahead of my running partner. We are both standing still as I stopped to take this picture.
What is neat about it is that once you finish, you can set save your finish time for next time to try to beat it.
Also, while running, I spotted a rusty old BlackBerry that was lying around
Looks like it belongs to Barnet Council…
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Rain
After an excessive amount of heat over these past few days, it’s actually cooled down today. Even so far as to have some rain appear. Still rather muggy and humid and temperatures are low 20s even at 10pm.
Saturday and Sunday are set to have showers with low-20s as highs. Finally, I can potentially get back to comfortably running.
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Training – 29th June 2019
Didn’t do my runs for most of this week due to being on call, so decided I had to run at least today.
And I happened to pick the hottest day to do it on, with temperatures set to hit 35degC/96degF in some places….
7 intervals 3min/2min with the first one being 3/3 instead of 3/2
Blender Fox 
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