.. well, being totally honest the primary fail was the operator!
Set alarm for 6am this morning (what!?) and set out at 6.58 (what?! does it really take 58 minutes for me to get dressed and drink a cup of tea?) for an 8K before it got too too hot. Just over 1k into the run I realised Mapmyrun was mysteriously silent ... then I remembered my last run was a treadmill one and I clearly hadn't changed the settings. grrrr. I actually managed to take the thing off my arm, stop it and start again, all without stopping running and, most importantly, without falling flat on my face! So now my distance stats were being called, but were missing the first bit of my run. I stuck to my planned, pre-measured route to try to ensure I got the 8k (apart from missing a turning and having to double back - think I was daydreaming about some good solid shade I'd found, but clearly I wasn't concentrating!).
Got home, nicely showered and refreshed and time to sort the stats! The good news is that I actually ran 8.5k and in a reasonable time (deliberately slower than usual but not too slow). I then uploaded the runs to strava. Inexplicably strava correctly recognised that the elapse time of the second part was about 50 minutes, but for some reason decided the actual moving was only around 36 minutes (yet I didn't stop at all, honest) giving me an average pace of 4.56 m per km!!!!! Ha bl**dy ha! Not in a million years.
While the Mapmyrun issue was clearly operator error, I'm not taking responsibility for Strava
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Well done for the 8k. And I can totally relate to your user error. In the past I recorded a swim on my Garmin instead of a run, a treadmill run that went nowhere because I was running outside and forgot to change it, an actual treadmill run that didn’t record because it was set to outside.
LOL! I need a full hour between waking and getting out too, Linda. I like to have a banana and take my time over a coffee. This means I will be up at 5:30am tomorrow for my planned 9k - yikes!
When I googled running the day after a sports massage there seemed to be two distinct camps - don't do it and it's OK to go for an easy run. The guy had said it was OK so I decided to risk it. My legs felt far less painful today but when running they were so, so heavy! I've spent a couple of hours on the couch watching the football and wondered if I'd even be able to get up, but so far it seems OK. I have high hopes that I will be able to climb the stairs unaided to go to bed tonight Whether I've done any other damage or undone any good, who knows. Fingers crossed it's OK though - and I definitely took it easy.
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