W6R1: See you after the interval

[nowster]

Time: 7.45am. Weather: 11°C, Light rain.

Harder than you'd have thought.

This run is to extend overall time with a slight decrease in running time. This is four minutes longer overall than W5R3.

Touch screen phones are hard to work when rain spots keep hitting the screen.

Setting off on the first run, I had the usual muscle and joint grumbles for the first minute or so, and I probably set off too fast again.

The middle run had me covering new ground on my route before the turn around.

The final run started OK but I could feel myself flagging about half way through, with the leg muscles feeling tight. Stuff that! For the final minute I deliberately pushed to maintain my earlier pace on the final upward incline. I didn't do a sprint at the end this time.

Stats:

Distance: 4.6km including all walks

Paces for the running sections: 5'51", 6'32", 5'52"/km. 🤯

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Today's jukebox selection:

07:44 Jim Reeves - Adios Amigo

07:46 Neil Sedaka - Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen

07:49 Peter Sellers - Oh! Lady Be Good

07:52 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

07:57 Big Dee Irwin - Swinging On A Star

08:00 Sky News

08:02 Frida - To Turn The Stone

08:07 Gloria Estefan - Don't Wanna Lose You

08:11 Tony Christie - Drive Safely Darlin'

08:14 The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Rosin the Bow

[sally1993]

Wow you were FAST! Well done, especially for keeping going in the second half. Bet it was all worth it when you saw your pace 🤩 x

[nowster Graduate in reply to sally1993]

I was really surprised how fast it worked out to be. I was trying to go slowly!

[sally1993 in reply to nowster]

Setting a terrible example for me! 😉

[BexJogs Graduate]

Brilliant! So speedy! And Superstition was on my playlist today too (W6R2)!

[a_in_gsr Graduate]

intervals are almost over!! and yep you're fasttt

[nowster Graduate in reply to a_in_gsr]

I'm trying not to be! This was faster than W5R3. If I end up getting a little faster overall over the next weeks, it looks like I may actually do 5km some time in week 9. 😳

[a_in_gsr Graduate in reply to nowster]

I always find I run faster if I'm not clock watching funnily enough and yes lets hope so!!

[Tasha99 Graduate]

Very well done. You need a garmin ☔️ 😜

I love your perfectly symmetrical elevation chart.

[nowster Graduate in reply to Tasha99]

Any recommendations?

[Tasha99 Graduate in reply to nowster]

Depends on how much you want to spend. And if you want to be able to download music on it too (you also need a Spotify premium account for £10 a month too)

The 45 and 245 are nice new models. Vivoactive 4 has music feature.

[nowster Graduate in reply to Tasha99]

Apparently there's a Forerunner 45 Plus just out.

argos.co.uk/product/9046278

[Tasha99 Graduate in reply to nowster]

Exciting!

thewiredrunner.com/garmin-f...

Do it 🤣

[nowster Graduate in reply to Tasha99]

I actually pulled the trigger on a Vivoactive 3. Should be arriving tomorrow.

I ummed and ahhed about it for ages.

[Tasha99 Graduate in reply to nowster]

Enjoy!

[nowster Graduate]

PS. Ignore the peak speed in the image. That's GPS jitter. FitoTrack isn't good at filtering that out yet.