Saturday, 9 July 2011

Mid Week, Mid Distance, Mid Pace

I ran home from the office on Thursday evening, around 7.6 miles via Cannon Hill and Highbury parks. In the third mile, in Cannon Hill park, I realised my Garmin hadn't been beeping at me. I'd switched autolap off for the hill session on Tuesday and still hadn't switched it back on. I did exactly the same thing the last time I ran this route, though I realised much earlier that time. Switching autolap on mid-run causes a massive spike in the graph, which makes it impossible to read, and the remaining points also appear to be much slower than they really are.

As you can see in the graph here which shows those last two runs on this route, it looks as though I briefly decelerated to over 100 Mins per mile, and the point at about 4½ miles appears to be over 20 mins per mile on the scale, but hovering the mouse over it shows that the pace was actually measured as 9:19 mins per mile.

I'm sure it must be possible to edit out spurious readings, but I have yet to figure out how.

The run itself was quite enjoyable, and quite pain free, which is nice, but I had to make a dash for home at the end to avoid what Tony Audenshawe, of Marathon Talk (oh, and one of those TV soaps) refers to as 'going for a Gingerbread Man'.

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