One of my favourite parts of running is route planning – deciding where to go on my next route.
I was experimenting with different routes via Endomondo and found a route that was just slightly over the Half Marathon. A HM is 21.0975 (Wikipedia), but the route I found was 21.13 KM — 0.0325 KM over. I guess I can live with that. :)
Tried a different route today, and comfortably increased my pace, but as a consequence, spent more time above the blue zone so miCoach penalised me for that and scored me at 70%.
My current Half Marathon training plan finishes July 10th. By then, I should hopefully be able to run (or at least jog) 1 hour 40 minutes. At my usual pace of 6 minutes/KM, this should get me 17 KM. Half Marathon distance is 20 KM, so if I can do this, my next trial is to get the last 3KM.
A couple of days this week were missed due to weather and O/T at work, but still managed to get a reasonable score today.
Threshold run — and messed it up.
Another day of torrential downpour so another missed run. I guess I could run in it, but I’d rather not catch a cold – we’re already stretched at the office as it is…
This run felt pretty good. I touched Yellow again, and pretty much stayed in Green the whole time I needed to be. My average speed went below 7 minutes for the first time in a while, but the blue zones at the start and end always skew the average pace.
Endomondo (which I use in conjunction with miCoach) told me my fastest KM was between approximately 1.25KM into the run and 2.25KM into the run, and that was in 5min 20secs/KM. Still a way to go to beat my Personal Best of 4min 44secs/KM.
I’m not sure how the hell my heart monitor registered I was running at 210BPM when I wasn’t even sprinting. For the first 8 or so minutes of this run I was fiddling with my monitor trying to seat it properly as a result of the OTT BPM.
I missed my hour run today because of the rain. :-(
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