Run 360
Average pace: 5:16/km
Location: Brunette River trail and Burnaby Lake (CCW)
Ran Spruce and Conifer Loops
Distance: 5.11 km
Time: 26:53
Weather: Cloudy
Temp: 19ºC
Wind: light
Calories burned: 371
Total distance to date: 3009
Device used: iPhone 5c
With daylight rapidly becoming a precious commodity, I can no longer walk to the lake to run unless I walk very fast to the lake. Like, running fast.
And that’s what I did.
Tonight’s route started on the Brunette River trail, continued to Burnaby Lake and counter-clockwise through the Spruce and Conifer Loops, then back until I hit 5K, just short of the foot bridge at Silver Creek.
The first half of the run, which was pretty much everything leading up to where I’d normally start my lake runs near the dam, went decently enough. After that I fell flat. Pancake flat. For whatever reason I had no energy and plodded along to finish with an average pace of 5:16/km, which would be okay for a 10K run but is lousy for a 5K.
Is it because I didn’t wear my lucky shorts? A poor sleep? Planetary alignment? Perhaps all of these things.
Also my left leg and foot all hurt at various points, which was weird and annoying. I’m not talking about actual pain, just soreness that turned off and on through the later stretch of the run, like a bunch of faulty lightbulbs.
The goal for Thursday will be to better tonight’s run. This should be easy.
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