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ZR Track

Today was certainly a change. The run was meant to be 1 hour 20 minutes, so I decided a while ago to aim for a 10K run and my target was 1 hour. However, considering my current timing for 5K is 35 minutes, meant I should hit 10K at 1 hour and 10 minutes. Considering this run was 10.25K in 1 hour 9 minutes and 15 seconds, I’m pretty pleased. And it didn’t feel too bad. Yes, I stopped a couple of times as my 10K route had to cross busy roads and I’m not dumb enough to run straight across without looking. And my overall pace at 6:45 was quite good –although I terminated the run early. This run had two 10-minute blue zones, and I terminated my run at 1:09 — 1:10 to 1:20 would be the final cool down.

Blue zones are a pain because you can’t run them adequately, as they’re warm ups, but since you’re running slow, your overall pace value suffers as miCoach takes these speeds into account when calculating the overall pace.

My usual miCoach pace is around 7:00 to 7:30 per KM because of the blue zones. Take out a 10-minute blue zone, and you can see a 45-second improvement in the pace value.

Route Planning

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. :)

Training Progress

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.

Zombies, Run!

*smacks head against table*

I was cleaning up some of my runs off Zombie Link (the web site for Zombies, Run), and it seems like I’ve deleted one of my completion runs for the first run of Season 2, so I’m now going to have to run it again. I’ve run that run several times already, and I don’t mind running it again, but it does mean I won’t get as many materials out of it this time, as a result of the update to the ZR app.

I guess I could always wipe my S1M1 runs of ZL, wipe my installation cache from my ZR app and resync, but then I’d have to redownload all the missions….