Run 397
Average pace: 5:26/km
Location: Brunette River tail, Burnaby Lake (CCW)
Distance: 7.03 km
Time: 38:17
Weather: Sunny
Temp: 30-27ºC
Wind: nil to light
BPM: 157
Stride: 197 strides/min
Weight: 156.1 pounds
Total distance to date: 3231
Device used: TomTom Runner Cardio
Stats! I have removed calorie burn, as it is predictable and not overly informative as to how the run went. I have added stride and BPM (beats per minute/heart rate).
After missing my usual Tuesday run I went out and ran today (Wednesday) instead.
Although the temperature went down over the course of the run it never felt any different. It was hot and muggy in the sun, it was hot and muggy in the shade. It was just darker in the shade, that’s all. If I had to use one word to describe the quality of the conditions, it would be grossbuckets.
There are forest fires a-raging to the north and the smoke is thick enough that on Monday it was settled over the area like a fog. A very smokey fog. By Wednesday the density had eased a bit and the smokey aroma was mostly gone but the sky was still white instead of blue and the air was thick in a way that air should never be.
Surprisingly, I pulled off a decent pace of 5:26/km. This is not blazing fast (no pun intended) but considering the volume of sweat produced, I think it was pretty good. I didn’t experience any issues on the run except for it being hot and grossbuckets. When I passed by the dam I spied a pair of women sitting on the top of a picnic table, both of them smoking. There are fires all over. The air still lingers with the scent of forest fires, there’s been a no smoking ban in parks for weeks and weeks and yet there they were, happily indulging in budding lung cancer.
I note again the only times I’ve seen people smoking at the lake this year has been after the smoking ban went into effect. I expected to encounter a cyclist on the trail later and was rewarded thusly. I gave the cyclist my patented “What the hell are you doing here?” look. He seemed puzzled. I wished for his tires to spontaneously deflate but this did not happen.
Since I wasn’t doing an endurance-ish run, my BPM was up slightly, to 157 but still below my first few runs where it was hitting 160/161.
Overall, not a bad effort given the yuck of the weather.
