It absolutely bucketed down in Birmingham today. Fortunately, when I got home with the kids, it was just grey, although it looked like it could have another go at any minute.
I decided to head out and do a 5k run to see how I would cope with the new running belt that I bought yesterday, whilst trying to work out the route that would have the least amount of puddles on it. This, I decided would be the Walsall Canal, switching onto the Tame Valley Canal, skirting round the outside of Wednesbury before rejoining the Walsall Canal to head back again. I warmed up, stopped to make sure both my shoelaces were tight and then set off.
This felt like a really good run. It has more elevation changes than I'm used to and even though I had to slow down for a horse that had escaped and was being herded back to its field by its owner, I kept my time under 27 minutes. As this was a GPS 5km as opposed to a measured 5km, I'm OK with that.
As if to illustrate the GPS/measured issue, I was using runkeeper on 2 i-devices simultaneously. One to track my warm up and warm down walks, and one to time the run itself (otherwise I would done my warm up, then cooled down whilst changing settings!) The GPS trace for my run was pretty much spot on, but for the walk, you'd have thought that the satellite was trying to track each leg of a drunken spider! Usually, I don't go back into the map and correct the GPS trace, however I couldn't let this one stand. Particularly as it suggested my warm up and warm down walks were longer and faster than the run I'd just done!
The belt was quite comfy to run in, but I am going to need to make sure it's tight enough as originally it wasn't and the bottle kept trying to work its way around my body.
Thursday is also weigh-in day and another 1/2lb lost - hurrah!
Running: 3.11 mile in 26m 43.
Walking: 1.76 miles in 27m 59.
Weight loss: 0.5lb
Juneathon totals:
Running:
Distance - 14.99 miles
Time - 2h 11m 22
Swimming:
Distance - 2.79 miles
Time - 1h 39m 13
Cycling:
Distance - 58.94 miles
Time - 2h 58m 42
Walking:
Distance - 6.82 miles
Time - 1h 51m 33
Cross Trainer:
Distance - 3.73 miles
Time - 31m 46
Rowing Machine:
Distance - 1.24 miles
Time - 09m 07
Total Distance - 88.51 miles
Total Time - 9h 21m 43
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