Run 472
Average pace: 5:28/km
Location: Burnaby Lake (CCW)
Distance: 5:04 km
Time: 27:34
Weather: Light rain
Temp: 10ºC
Wind: light to moderate
BPM: 173
Stride: n/a
Weight: 158.4 pounds
Total distance to date: 3750 km
Devices/apps: Apple Watch and iPhone 6
Apparently the appropriate headgear for rain is a baseball cap based on what I saw on today’s run. A few people had hoods but most were relying on droopy, soggy ball caps to keep their heads…um…wet.
I headed out in the early afternoon, waiting for the rain to stop and finally realized that wasn’t going to happen. Ironically when I headed out, it did stop (until I got to the lake).
Given the erratic behavior of the watch in the rain, I chose to lock it this time after starting the run and it worked. Hooray.
Save for a few seconds and a strangely higher BPM (I’m wondering how accurate it is or how out of shape I am), the run was nearly identical to last Sunday, with an overall pace of 5:28/km and the same pattern as last week–faster first km, a retreat in the second, then faster from there up until the end. I avoided running along the athletic fields because the trail was muddy and filled with puddles a-plenty, meaning the area around the field would have been a complete swamp.
I saw a few other runners but most of the others out were the ball cap-wearing people, soaking up the rain. One guy headed out with his dog just before I started and a) had his dog off-leash b) had one of those ball sticks used to throw balls for dogs to chase (which he did) and c) was often seen jogging to catch up to his dog, which was always running ahead of him.
Idiot (the guy, not the dog).
The trail was sparsely populated overall, though, which was nice, and my dexterous ducking of puddles kept me from getting completely mud-splattered. But not entirely (this is post-run, when I was sitting on the SkyTrain, not sitting on the toilet):
Amazingly there was almost no color bleeding from the shoes. I guess it’s all leeched out by now, so that’s good. Or at least better than before.
This week I may start running during lunch or on a treadmill after work. Somewhere I’ll be running, anyway. In theory.
