Long weekend run again

[rmc28]

I did the same route as about a month ago, but this time I padded it out to get a nice round 12k done.  I was deliberately aiming for a slower pace at 1m:1m but couldn't actually have done it much faster even if I'd wanted to, certainly not as fast as last time.  

Aim for next week: 2 short runs & 1 "long" run of 5-6km, all at 1m:1m.

Comments

[liv]

12 km, yay. I am always impressed at how well you're able to pace yourself over different distances. It's also good you're getting used to the 1min:1min ratio.

[rmc28]

I think most of the credit goes to the walking breaks, and to me calculating what I *should* be able to do, with reference to the Galloway charts.

My actual ability to keep pace isn't as good as I'd like: I went off too fast on this one, and I didn't seem to be able to slow down much until half way through. Looking at the splits, I actually started slowing down during the 5th km (which makes sense given I usually do 4-4.5k during the week), but it took a while to affect the overall average.

The last couple of km were pretty slow, and those were the ones where I could hear my average pace was dropping quite a lot, and was pushing myself a bit in response.

The more I think about it, the more I think I should get Runkeeper to give me more frequent feedback and really focus on slowing down at the start of all my runs.