5km with RockMyRun

[BaddieThePirate]

I'm not good at modern technology. Thought I had RockMyRun all set up to play 160bpm but I didn't. So the music was faster than I was which was funny. Sailed past all my old milestones again, and got a bit further on this run. Pace was too fast probably for first km. First 5-10 mins are always hard. Second km was ace, then the rest was harder again. Final bit was run to 160bpm which was slightly faster than my pace so I pushed it. Also had a sprint finish. Well my version of sprint. Couldn't quite keep it up til the end, but fun to see what I can do.

The great thing about running to distance is that the faster you do it, the sooner you can go home for a shower and breakfast😋 5km in 35 mins on dead flat route. It's a PB and an improvement so I'm happy.

Next run might be a C25K W1R1 to support a friend at a folk festival over the weekend... Looking forward to seeing the difference between now and 13 weeks ago...

[Ang33333]

Well done! That's fast! 😁😁

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Ang33333]

Completely flat helps 🙃

[mrrun Graduate10]

It’s you who controls the rhythm, not the bpm stuff. You run the way you want/feel/are able to. Try this. Pick a song, whatever you listen to, and simply start running. Go slow, let the song play but ignore the beat, just run and enjoy the music. You are likely to feel cool and relaxed, just don’t speed up. I’ve done fair distances doing it and if you hit the right button, man, you go home relaxed.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to mrrun]

I was trying to use the bmp to go faster to get a better time, but just had to ignore it for a lot of the time! All interesting experiments and enjoying the journey immensely 👍 All rather miraculous. I'm running. Me!

[Jay66UK Graduate10 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

BPM definitely influences my pace. I do my shorter runs to 160bpm and my longer ones to 140bpm. Regardless my cadence remains somewhere around 150! Weird.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Jay66UK]

Ah, thanks for the numbers. No wonder I couldn't keep up with faster beats. Might train by doing short runs up hills next, I'm really bad at hills. Maybe more practice would help. Yikes!

[telford_mike Graduate10]

5k in 35 minutes is pretty respectable - bravo!