{"id":1349,"date":"2012-10-11T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-10-11T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:50:19","slug":"running-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Running man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something wierd has been going on lately with my running and I just can&#8217;t explain it.  My average run (pretty much 4-5 days a week) is 5km (just over 3 miles).  I usually average at least 31-33 Mins depending upon which of my running routes that I take, whether it is a flat or slight incline, twisty, curvy or just out and back no thought required.  I feel thats a good pace for me, I can push myself to go the low 31s or I can rest my body a bit and end up in the high 33s.  I have a number of running routes I use that allow me to vary my runs so that I am not doing the same route day after day.  I have routes that are easier and some that I use for punishment (I even have an 8k and 10k loop that are for my punishment days when I have been just that little bit naughty).<\/p>\n<p>But if you were to go into my running history on the <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/profile\/bigmalx\" target=\"_blank\">Garmin Website<\/a> you will see my fastest ever 5k was 28 mins and that was a proper race where I was pushing myself to the limits <\/p>\n<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/179936811'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, it is a really good pace and I am really happy with it.  But as of late my runs on the same routes that were averaging 31-33 have dropped to be around 29-30.  I can&#8217;t explain it.  I don&#8217;t feel like I am pushing myself any harder (there are days that I do push myself though).<\/p>\n<p>Take this mornings route for instance, here is a capture from one of my average times on the same route:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/224868152'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This run was barely weeks ago and to be honest, Its pretty average, not to fast, not to slow, a good pace in my eyes.  But now compare this to this morning:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/232292966'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Same route (may not be the same direction but that shouldn&#8217;t matter with this route), Same day of the week.  I don&#8217;t get it.  Maybe its the colder weather forcing me to output better or I am running better in the colder weather?  Maybe someone who is a pro runner can help explain it to me.  Either way, I don&#8217;t feel like I am pushing myself harder at the moment, but maybe I am and just not realising it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something wierd has been going on lately with my running and I just can&#8217;t explain it. My average run (pretty much 4-5 days a week) is 5km (just over 3 miles). I usually average at least 31-33 Mins depending upon which of my running routes that I take, whether it is a flat or slight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-life-in-general","category-losing-it"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-lL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}