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I didn't run at all from last Wednesday until today, and while I did walk a great deal at Worldcon, we came home on Tuesday and I managed only some walking on Wednesday and then very little at all until today.

My plan had me going to 10k now, but I decided I was ok with going up to 12k given the complete lack of distance run in 10 days.  In the end, my phone crashed half way round, so I had another fun job stitching two GPX files together and feeding back to Runkeeper to find out what I actually did, which was 11.65km rather than anything like a nice round number.

I did 30s:45s run:walk ratio and achieved a significantly faster-than-expected pace - enough to make me double-check the mapped route, but it was accurate.  Maybe the extended rest was good for me!   

Over the next six weeks or so I'm aiming to push my long-run distance out to 20km, and get my run:walk ratio for short weekday runs up to at least 2.5m:1m. 

My pace is sufficiently improved that I think I'm going to do the Magic Mile test next weekend to recheck what my training pace "should" be.   I was going to wait until had my run:walk ratios back up, but I'm enough ahead of target that I think I'd rather gather some data.  (numbers: I ran at just under 8min/km, with a target of 9min/km.  If I were aiming for 8m/km, then I should be doing 1m:1m ratios.)

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Date: 28/08/2014 03:44 pm (UTC)
liv: oil painting of seated nude with her back to the viewer (body)
From: [personal profile] liv
Worldcon was really a lot of walking, wasn't it? Plus I got stranded in the middle of London late Sunday night and ended up walking three miles back to my hotel. But good for you getting back into running and even being ahead of your very sensible plan.
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