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Tortoise with wet feet 🌊🐢?

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Scant 3k run today, to save the km for Sunday’s longer effort, so I revisited the Stepping Stones podcast. Always sounds so reasonable in Laura’s measured tones, but stepping up the step rate is not fun for a tortoise! 😨 And then I avoided the field path because of the mud but that sent me across the longish grass and whoosh, I could feel the cold water sloshing around in the toes of my shoes. Yuck. 😟 It got marginally better as the water warmed up, but not a lot.

Moreover, I’m not altogether sure it was particularly beneficial. Mr Garmin did say the run included my fastest 1km and fastest mile to date, but it wasn’t by much. And the just-behind records were on my 8km distance run recently, where I didn’t bother about pace. The faster cadence shortens my stride, so it’s a bit of a trade off.

On the plus side, Mr G was saying I’d increased my aerobic fitness by actually spending substantial time in heart zone 3 (it’s usually 2 more or less throughout). So who knows...? 🤔

Think I might not be cut out to be a stats geek and should stay with the long, slow tortoise plan. 🤣🤣

Happy running folks, and stay out of the way of those storms, all you race runners this weekend!

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SlothgoesrunningGraduate10

Love it! I’m with you on the tortoise plan 🙂🐢

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Dexy5Graduate10

Well done for getting out between the rain showers Granspeed. Hope you’ve stuffed your shoes with newspaper to get them dry for Sunday. I went out today too because I’m chickening out of a very wet and windy parkrun tomorrow to watch the rugby. Gusts of 60 mph sounds like something to avoid. Beware of falling trees in the Forest. 🏃‍♀️👏👏

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GranspeedGraduate10 in reply to Dexy5

Yep. Rugby for me too tomorrow. High winds round here are not good news. 😮

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Beachcomber66Graduate10

Yes. I play about with stats a lot but “how I feel on the day” is my main guide.

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GrannyhugsGraduate10

Well done keeping going with wet feet. Stats sometimes just get in the way of a good run. Hope you have better conditions for your longer run on Sunday

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