Ten minute breaks make a huge difference to my pace! I suppose it's obvious if I think about it but I didn't. Three weeks ago, I included a parkrun in my long run. There was a ten minute pause at the start and I took another ten minutes afterwards (with my watch paused) which gave me an HM time of 2:09:31. Last weekend, I went out with the local running group with a pace of around 5:40/km (I forgot to pause my watch for some of the stops so that's a bit of an estimate). Anyhow, I thought that this week I might manage a sub 2 hour HM (non-stop). The time I recorded was 2:16:28, so nowhere near what I'd hoped for.
Still, I did push on and get my first 20 mile run (up from 18.6 two weeks ago).
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Auto-pause gives us a very false idea of our abilities. I've turned mine off for trail running now as real time is much more useful with mixed terrain to see how I'm really doing.
Turn off auto pause! It gives a very false idea of performance. I just this weekend did a 20km "joggy" run with landscape photo sessions every 4-5 km and was on HM PB pace by hitting 'pause' before each 1 min photo session - heartrate goes right down and 'fresh as a daisy' after a minute or so. So it's not the same as in a long event where you suffer heart rate drift (it just keeps going up and up because you're knacked or else it stays the same but you have to slow down.)
I think my problem is that I ignored the "fresh as a daisy" effect; I expected to maintain the same pace without breaks as with them. An well, lesson learnt!
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