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W6R2: Don't tread on the slugs

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Time: 7.20am. Weather: 17°C, Overcast, Very damp.

Hard going in the damp.

Another run to extend the overall time. This adds two minutes of running time to the previous session. It's also the last run with intervals.

At the start of the first run, my shin muscles were feeling a little tight, but that passed.

Hard going due to the humidity. And because of the recent rain there were a lot of little slugs littering the pavements.

I was flagging towards the end of the running segments. The first one ended with the steepest part of the incline. The second one because I was getting tired. I did try to maintain pace and cadence (apparently 160/min).

I fought a stitch which wanted to develop about half way through the second run. It passed after about a minute.

I got a running watch yesterday, so was trying that out during this run.

(Ignore the top speed in the image above. It's GPS jitter.)

Stats:

Distance: 4.51km including walks

Paces for running sections: 6'24" and 6'08"/km.

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Today's random selection of oldies:

07:20 Bee Gees - The Singer Sang His Song

07:23 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing

07:26 Slim Whitman - Danny Boy (It's an awful version)

07:29 Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

07:33 Neil Sedaka - The Diary

07:35 Nat King Cole - It Is Better To Have Loved And Lost

07:38 Russ Conway - Side Saddle

07:39 Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Scarlet O'Hara

07:42 Shakin Stevens - Green Door

07:45 The Searchers - He's Got No Love

07:47 Kinks - Lola (Original "Coca Cola" version)

07:51 Bobby Vee - Guess Who

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sally1993

Such a good pace!!! Glad you avoided the slugs :) x

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a_in_gsrGraduate

nicely done!! I was also flagging by the end today haha but good luck for w6r3 :)

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nowsterGraduate in reply to a_in_gsr

Ta! I'm now looking at Saturday morning's weather forecast and hoping it's not going to be too hot and humid in the morning.

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a_in_gsrGraduate in reply to nowster

yeah definitely!! I for one am not running in 27 degrees or hotter so the run will have to be early!

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Kipchoge

Great work! I find this detailed running stats and extended account of your experience so useful. What type of running watch did you get, nowster, If I may ask?

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nowsterGraduate in reply to Kipchoge

In the end, I got a Garmin Vivoactive 3. I don't need it to hold music. My phone does that.

I set an "activity" on the watch appropriate to today's run to get the splits data. I won't need to do that from the next run: no more intervals.

The stats image is from my existing app, FitoTrack.

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Kipchoge in reply to nowster

Thank you for this insightful info.

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BexJogsGraduate

Great stuff! You're so quick! Another excellent playlist too!

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nowsterGraduate in reply to BexJogs

I probably am still going too fast according to the recommendations, though. I can't help it if I've got ostrich legs. (No, I'm not Bernie Clifton.)

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BexJogsGraduate in reply to nowster

It's not too quick if it feels comfortable for you! Also I just googled Bernie Clifton and nearly spat out my coffee!

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Tasha99Graduate

Well done on your run. Great pace. What are you using to get the stats in the pic? As you don’t need to now as everything will come up on garmin connect 👍🏽 you can also sync to Strava if you want 👍🏽

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nowsterGraduate in reply to Tasha99

That's FitoTrack.

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Jools2020Graduate

Well done! It’s good you are gathering all the stats like this; you will have a good record of your journey. 👏👍

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Smile23Graduate

Wow you are flying!

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