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Week E day 2
Jan. 30th, 2013 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livGlorious weather, so I took a break from my towering pile of stats marking and went out for a run at lunchtime. Officially the temperature was 6 °C; it was warmer than that in the direct sunshine and cooler with the wind blowing. It was soooo nice to be outdoors again!
And I got to try out my new fancy shoes. I don't know if the shoes actually made me faster or if my half-believing that they would improved my confidence, but this was far and away my best run yet. I did the first 10 minute run really fast, faster than I thought I was capable of even for short distances. And kept up a steady pace always faster than 8' /km for the remaining two runs. So my total time was a smidgen over 42 minutes for the full 5 km, alternating 5 minutes walking and 10 minutes running. So overall 8'24'' / km, even including 15 minutes of walking. I had enough energy to go a bit faster when I could see I was near 5 km.
I took some extra loops in my normal run in the park, so that I wouldn't be covering the same ground too many times. I did this by carefully timing things so that I was walking when I needed to go up hills to get to new corners of the park I've been avoiding up to now. Anyway, it was lovely with the sun shining and the birds singing, and working hard but not painfully so.
The new shoes are lighter in weight than my old rubbish trainers. And they let draughts in to tickle my toes, which meant that until I was warmed up my feet felt a bit chilly, but once I was running it was nice not to feel sweaty. I think they made my feet hurt in a different way from the old ones. They're supposed to be designed to encourage you to land flat on the sole of your foot, and I could feel that my soles were getting warm to the point of slightly sore with the repeated impacts. But I wasn't getting any rubbing or soreness at the edges of my feet, and I think that less rolling really does mean I can get the same forward motion with less energy. My leg muscles and my lungs did feel less tired than I'd have expected, considering I was going faster than I usually manage.
And I got to try out my new fancy shoes. I don't know if the shoes actually made me faster or if my half-believing that they would improved my confidence, but this was far and away my best run yet. I did the first 10 minute run really fast, faster than I thought I was capable of even for short distances. And kept up a steady pace always faster than 8' /km for the remaining two runs. So my total time was a smidgen over 42 minutes for the full 5 km, alternating 5 minutes walking and 10 minutes running. So overall 8'24'' / km, even including 15 minutes of walking. I had enough energy to go a bit faster when I could see I was near 5 km.
I took some extra loops in my normal run in the park, so that I wouldn't be covering the same ground too many times. I did this by carefully timing things so that I was walking when I needed to go up hills to get to new corners of the park I've been avoiding up to now. Anyway, it was lovely with the sun shining and the birds singing, and working hard but not painfully so.
The new shoes are lighter in weight than my old rubbish trainers. And they let draughts in to tickle my toes, which meant that until I was warmed up my feet felt a bit chilly, but once I was running it was nice not to feel sweaty. I think they made my feet hurt in a different way from the old ones. They're supposed to be designed to encourage you to land flat on the sole of your foot, and I could feel that my soles were getting warm to the point of slightly sore with the repeated impacts. But I wasn't getting any rubbing or soreness at the edges of my feet, and I think that less rolling really does mean I can get the same forward motion with less energy. My leg muscles and my lungs did feel less tired than I'd have expected, considering I was going faster than I usually manage.
