Having used up my one-a-day on a 5k run, I did the following:
Ran up and down the length of my room (about 20 feet) in time with "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits booming out of YouTube. Such fun!!! That song is BRILLIANT for running and somehow it makes it even more fun if you have to turn round every 20 feet. There are very few songs as uplifting as Walk of Life. Curious that most of the rest of the songs on the album are quite depressing (apart from Money for Nothing).
I've a friend who did 5k running up and down her back garden. It shows how inaccurate GPS is because her Strava looked like she'd scribbled over the whole garden though she stuck to one path.
Anyone else got crazy things they have done to be innovative about running?
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I worked out if I ran a 5K around my garden it would take me 238 times to do it, there was a man who ran a marathon around a garden about the same size as mine, there is no need to do those type of runs as runners in the UK are allowed to run in parks. In Spain and Italy they are not allowed to be outside, there have been many reports of runner's running around the the terrace of their homes in those countries.
I worked out it would be 42 laps of my garden, down the side of the house, and round the front drive to get to 5k. If you follow The Running Channel on YouTube, one of the presenters, Anna Harding, did a marathon in her parents' back garden, requiring 1971 out and back runs! It took her over 6 hours - nowhere near a PB! One of the other presenters of the Running Channel is Andy Baddeley, who has the world record for Parkrun in 13:28. Another wonderful video in the series is where a group of fans of his from South Africa managed to beat his world record time by 20 seconds, with 15 of them running as a relay, with a GPS watch tied to the baton! The video shows just what an insane pace that is, and to think he kept it up for 5k, while each of them only ran about 350 meters.
Summer 5000 metres track meetings that you see on TV, the runners run that in around 13 minutes, however, not many can get a sub 15 minutes 5K at a parkrun.
World record for 5000 metres is by Kenenisi Bekele from Ethiopia in a time of 12.37.35, that was a track event, he probably could do a flat parkrun course in sub 13 minutes.
Ahh, great song Iain, I agree. 👍🎶 I think you had it spot on, finding the perfect track and using it to motivate you during your unorthodox run! 😀
Tomorrow, when I come back from my run, I’m going to do a separate lap around my garden out of curiosity to see how far it is, and before the end of lockdown I intend to do one decent length garden run for fun - after all it will never happen after we’re set free! Our cottage isn’t good for indoor running - quirky floors, several people working from home - it wouldn’t go down well! 😅
The best way to measure your garden is to do the measure distance function on Google Maps, and zoom right in with satellite view. Don't rely on the GPS - it is only accurate to a few yards, and only samples say once a second, so if there are lots of turns it vastly underestimates the distance covered. I follow The Running Channel on YouTube and one of the presenters did a marathon in her back garden (to raise money for COVID research). She measured it out with a tape measure and did 1971 laps. But her garmin only showed 21 km - about half the distance!
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