Running Outside

Measured my Beach Road circuit today with the Navman and not to my surprise it’s a bit shorter than I thought.

Previously I’ve had it down as 4.24 km but after checking today it’s 4.10km. That kind of makes sense ‘cos on previous runs when I haven’t been moving, I’ve been a bit surprised at the average speed.

Suppose I should go through my old posts at some point and correct them.

Anyways, not going too bad today on a warm and breezy day. Coopers pace will do.

Start:13:37
Duration:18:11
Distance:4.10 km
Ave speed:13.49 kph

325 kcal

HRmax=178/ave=170

Managed to find the time to squeeze a short run in. Lovely evening for it too.

Just a short one today – Beach Road circuit, which is the same as doing Red Rocks only you dont run down the bottom of Stanley Road. Not going too great again, but I’m getting a cold and I had a crap nights sleep. Moan, moan, etc

Start:19:37
Duration:18:57
Distance:4.24 km
Ave speed:13.425 kph (that seems fast to me, think I’ll recheck the distance)

332 kcal

HRmax=178/ave=168

Running Hoylake

As I needed to pop down to my allotment to water the tomatoe plants etc in the greenhouse I decided to combine the plot 69 visit with a run. Actually I could do with multi-tasking more often as I never seem to have enough time to fit things in even though I run our search marketing business from home and have no commute time!

Ran down to the plot. Using my navman for the first time in ages I now know that door to door it’s 1km (well about 10 metres shy – so we’ll call it 1km). Did that in 4.37. Watered the plants and then headed off to Beach Road. You lose a bit of time crossing the railway line but no matter, this’ll never be a circuit for speed running. Up Market Street, down Stanley Road to Beach Road, and then back home as usual.

Going awful. Felt like a lump of lard! Might be getting a cold so I’ll blame that. Grotty weather too – back to two tops and long pants. Resultant ave speed seems high to me. I did pause the watch whilst on the plot though not the navman – but I hardly walked any distance at all. Perhaps the wind down on the prom blew me home? And as I type this not only is it windy it’s pouring down too. Ah! it’s a Bank Holiday.

Start:16:25
Duration:25:48
Distance:5.47 km
Ave speed:12.72 kph

400 kcal

HRmax=174/168

Tried again this afternoon but felt bleeding awful. Cut the run short and did my classic (‘cos I used to run this circuit all the time) Beach Road circuit. It’s shorted than Red Rocks and hence I went a bit faster average wise but I’m well below par. Sunny enough for late afternoon though which was nice.

Start:16:38
Duration:19:51
Distance:4.24 km
Ave speed:12.81 kph

339 kcal

HRmax=174/ave=166

Running Hoylake