Took some measurements today;
- Back under 100kg
- Blood pressure back in normal range
- 7-day resting heart rate of 53
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My 5k treadmill PB is 25:22 but that was with an incline of 3. 5k PB on the road (Cranwell Ave) is 24:44. Not really a lover of road running as it doesnāt really give a constant amount of effort for my liking (up and down) hence why I prefer the treadmill.
Letās just say Iām not in the under 45 year old bracket!!
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Like anything else, finishing times are just another metric. The actual number doesnāt matter as much as the overall trend.
However, we are going to disagree on the use of dreadtreadmills. I only run my parkrun on tarmac in any given week, with about 80% of all my other runs being on the bridlepaths and footpaths by my house, but Iāll take pavements over treadmills any day of the week.
My London Marathon training last time round was during Beast From The East and, just once, it was too snowy to get out on the roads. So I spent 2 hours on a treadmill before I was just mentally done. The plan was for 4 hours that day.
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Itās very much an āeach to their ownā. My wife is very much a road runner and runs about 10 miles a day along the canal near us, but she absolutely hates the treadmill and says itās a drain on her mental state and boring.
For me, I just zone out (not difficult) and get on with it. Plus I can run until Iāve had enough, press stop and get off rather than having to get the bus home 
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100% agree on treadmills. Canāt stand them
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Road running is the business
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Agreed.
Absolutely despise any form of running.
Iāll stick to my heavy circles thanks.
Parkrun this morning was weird.
Iām following a training plan for a half in September and it has Saturdays as 30 minute easy runs. So Iāve stepped right back off the pace.
Going around the laps at that slower speed really gives a different perspective of the event. Especially when itās tipping it down as it was this morning.
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I hate running for runningās sake. Now put me on a lacrosse pitch and Iām happy running round. I know itās all psychological
Agreed.
To quote Willy Wonka:
āIf the good lord had intented us to walk, he wouldnāt have invented roller skatesā
Or in my case, motorbikes. Which I will neither confirm or deny speeds due to the presence of those law enforcement types.
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Surely its just a perception of going fast when down hill and with following wind.
Isnāt Lacrosse like Shinty just legalised violence??
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You mean 0 to the Magistrates Court in under 5 seconds.
Only if youāre caughtā¦
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If you ever get into the Gaelic sports, both Hurling and Gaelic Football are definitely just legalised fighting.
Still reckon we should introduce Hurling to the Corps thoughā¦
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Iāve seen cadets take part in Hurling after aerobatics on an AEF
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Urgh.
Just went out to do the long run on my half-marathon training plan. Itās not even meant to be that long; just 13km.
My heart rate went straight up into Z3 as soon as I started and kept climbing from there. By 7.5km, it was sitting at 185 bpm (well within my Z5) and stubbornly not dropping regardless of how much I dropped the pace. So I called it a day at 10km.
What worries me is a HR that stays high can be a sign of incoming illness. My mother tested positive for Covid when I visited her on Thursday. Iām yet to have it at all. It might be the (half) maranoia, but Iām concerned I might be about to pop my Covid cherry.
Bloody hell, that doesnāt sound funā¦ Not sure mine has ever gone that high
I have a strong sprint finish, and have registered a speed on a parkrun finish of over 22mph - when Iām able to get into the zone to do that, it feels indescribably incredible; itās as if Iām floating over the tarmac. However, my HR on that sprint came in at a peak of 206 bpmā¦
However, on this run Iād have expected to see a peak around 165 given the pace. So no, no fun at all!
I will admit to there being a special kind of rush during a sprint at the end of a distance run.
Itās been a while, but I definitely remember enjoying that.