Zombies Run S2 ep 1

[rmc28]

I ran this at the weekend, with the episode length set "about 1 hour" because the goal was "about 5k at about 9 min/km" and I wanted to see how "about 1 hour" felt.

The episode itself was a bit confusing at the start but did then explain itself, and had me gripped right up to the twist ending. I hope there'll be some more backfilling of What Happened Between The Seasons in future episodes. I did find the two-song gap a bit less interesting, not helped when a 12-minute medley got selected from my huge running playlist. So I probably won't do episodes set at "1 hour" again, just use Radio Mode to fill up time if I need to.

At the end of the run I found that the dratted app had failed to record any GPS data for the first ~25 minutes, so I got no useful information about my running pace out of it. I think I'm just going to have RunKeeper run in parallel for all future weekend runs: ZR keeps me entertained but RunKeeper gives me more reliable data.

I'm also going to edit my running playlist to take out the excessively long songs (everything over 6 minutes?).

Comments

[liv]

That's pretty much exactly my impression, both of ep 1 and of the hour-long mission settings. That's a useful point about ZR not recording properly; once I get back to running outdoors regularly I might follow your example and use RunKeeper in combination.

[rmc28]

ZR on android does seem to be a bit flaky compared to my previous experience with the iphone version, but some of it may be my phone too.

There's a problem with calculating distance on-the-fly from the GPS readings, which is apparently specific to the chip used in the Fairphone, but normally the GPS readings themselves are fine once uploaded to Zombie Link. The phone is often very slow to get a GPS fix to start with, and that's regardless of app. (I'm about 90% happy I switched and about 10% irritated by these niggles)

I now have a more sensible playlist, thank goodness for sort-by length.