Zombies mission 4
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c25kOnce again, this episode seemed to miss any warm-up stage - the story starting with gates opening and "off you go".
I find this mildly annoying, but given I have an established warm-up and cool-down distance (there's a particular tree by the duck pond where I start and stop) I can just ignore in-story urgings to run before I'm ready. The Radio Abel filler at the end lets me pad out my workout to roughly 40 minutes total (30 min running plus 2x 5 min walking) - I suppose I could regard this as adding flexibility for those who need to warm up versus those who don't.
I also got caught out this time because the mission hadn't been downloaded, so at the point where I would have started walking briskly to my tree, I had to walk around the building (to keep warm - it was COLD outside) while it downloaded.
Despite these minor quibbles, I am still really enjoying the story and the concept is working very well for me. I am really pleased I bought it.
For variety, this time I didn't run over the motorway and back but around the large pond and up and down the landscaped slope above it, beside the new Materials Science building. I was hoping this would give me more total uphill running, which is not something Cambridge is exactly known for. I think it probably did, but the height difference didn't really register on RunKeeper so I can't "prove" it.
The pond has the advantage of being approx 5 minutes run back to my cool-down tree, so when I got to the end of the mission I just finished my circuit and headed back. I think I'll go back to my usual run over the motorway on Wednesday for comparison - I really do like the wide-open-space feel of the Coton footpath along the edge of farm fields.
I find this mildly annoying, but given I have an established warm-up and cool-down distance (there's a particular tree by the duck pond where I start and stop) I can just ignore in-story urgings to run before I'm ready. The Radio Abel filler at the end lets me pad out my workout to roughly 40 minutes total (30 min running plus 2x 5 min walking) - I suppose I could regard this as adding flexibility for those who need to warm up versus those who don't.
I also got caught out this time because the mission hadn't been downloaded, so at the point where I would have started walking briskly to my tree, I had to walk around the building (to keep warm - it was COLD outside) while it downloaded.
Despite these minor quibbles, I am still really enjoying the story and the concept is working very well for me. I am really pleased I bought it.
For variety, this time I didn't run over the motorway and back but around the large pond and up and down the landscaped slope above it, beside the new Materials Science building. I was hoping this would give me more total uphill running, which is not something Cambridge is exactly known for. I think it probably did, but the height difference didn't really register on RunKeeper so I can't "prove" it.
The pond has the advantage of being approx 5 minutes run back to my cool-down tree, so when I got to the end of the mission I just finished my circuit and headed back. I think I'll go back to my usual run over the motorway on Wednesday for comparison - I really do like the wide-open-space feel of the Coton footpath along the edge of farm fields.
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Date: 26/11/2013 09:04 pm (UTC)I have the opposite problem when it comes to hills: there's almost nowhere locally that isn't hilly, and most of my possible running route options are steeper hills than I can manage even slowly. So I always end up running exactly the same route, namely along the one-dimensional park along the river valley.
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Date: 26/11/2013 11:21 pm (UTC)