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Quick Sat Morning Run, Runner'sEnvy, Dry Runs, and BPM

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I’m sitting on my towel on the bed, just before heading into the shower and having done all my post-run stretches, drunk my two glasses of water, and now scrolling through pictures and maps and reports of everyone’s Parkrun this morning.

Such enticing routes!

 That there is a Parkrun on the Severn bridge intrigued me, and look at the  profile of this Parkrun on Guernsey: blog.parkrun.com/uk/2018/03...  

I’m getting a severe case of runner’s envy!!   

My run this morning was shorter and more solitary. Just a little recovery run using NRC, the one next on my 5k NRC plan. It was the  “End of day run with headspace” recovery.   It was not the end of the day, but it was lovely nevertheless!  

Several things struck me about this run:

1) I put my old 9mm drop NewBalance Hierro shoes on, as I do once in a while. I usually have now 0-drop Altras, which have made a big difference to my metatarsal issues, I think. But I do once in a while switch shoes, and it makes it so obvious how they “shape” your running style. Whilst still fore-foot striking, my heel kisses the ground ever-so-gently. And I know when I don’t watch my technique or when I get tired, it’s easier to fall into a heel strike gate. 

2) I used a 155 BPM Spotify playlist. I had set this up last year to encourage me to increase my leg turnover. But it doesn’t quite work for recovery run. I cannot get out of my comfy 145-150 BPM pace. So be it. There will be other runs where I can train myself to have a faster turnover, but maybe not on this program. 

3) I was hoping for rain, my weather app had promised rain, but it was a dry run. And I was disappointed! It was a surprise in itself that I WANTED a wet run! 

4) And the hill! Having done a few speed runs, fartleks and interval runs, where I chose rather the flat part of my usual route, the one avoiding the hill, I was aware that I hadn’t run my hill for more than two weeks! 😳 So I wasn’t sure how my legs would feel about tackling the hill again. But as they say, two weeks is not long enough for your stamina to reduce, so it was with the hill. It was no problem at all!   

Great stuff! A shorter run than many of you Parkrun runners completed, but a run is a run.

Even if my legs had the deliciously slow 145BPM turnover.

Even if Coach, and former Buddhist monk, Puddicombe made me feel like being a yogi rather than a runner.

Even if it was a dry run, in all sorts of ways. 

Now… off to get wet in the shower!   

Have a great runner’s weekend, everyone!

(pic: not my path, but rather a view from my path)

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Sounds like just the right run for you regardless of the failure of the weather to comply with your wishes 😂☔️

I can’t believe that the other week I was pleased to finish a run in a light drizzle…me, the fair weather runner! 🙈

Last year “Sultans of Swing” was my easy pace…I’ve now gone down a gear to “Spirit in the Sky”and “Let’s Stick Together”, no idea what bpm they are though!

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toLottieMW

Wowsa, that’s a nice range! Just looked it up. So if I have the versions right it goes from ca 120 (Let’s stick together) all the way to ca 155 (Sultans). Spirit is, as you say in between 135-ish.

My kind of playlist!

Isn’t music great to get you into a steady rhythm, and then in the next song forces and welcomes you into a different steady rhythm.

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I often use the tunes as mini fartleks! Very random too, as my tunes are on shuffle…

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What a successful run you had even though it was dry.

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CBDBGraduate10 in reply toSueAppleRun

🤣🤣👍🏽

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