Run 324
Average pace: 5:32/km
Location: Burnaby Lake (CCW)
Ran Spruce and Conifer Loops and Piper Mill Trail
Distance: 10.07 km
Weather: Sunny
Temp: 20-24ºC, felt like 26ºC
Wind: nil to light
Calories burned: 774
Total distance to date: 2747
This was a weirdly disappointing run.
First the good news: my left foot was reasonably behaved. I didn’t feel anything until the 5K mark and it wasn’t until 7K that it began to hurt. It leveled out quickly and was tolerable for the rest of the run.
Despite an unusually early start at 9 a.m. it was already quite warm–20ºC and rising rapidly to 24ºC during the run, and feeling warmer due to that good ol’ humidity. This had an impact on my time, as did my general approach of taking it slower so my foot and stamina would both hold up. I could have gone a full 11K and only stopped because I knew my time would be awful and I didn’t want to drag my average down any further.
The last run, a 5K, had me plodding along at a glacier-like pace of 5:32/km. This is terrible. I figured even doubling the distance today I would still come in faster.
I was incorrect.
My pace was worse, at 5:35/km. To put it in perspective, the last full 11K I ran my pace was 5:12/km. Today my pace for just the first km was 5:17/km.
With today’s run feeling much better overall but the time being even worse I am wondering if the new Brooks shoes are causing issues with the Nike+ sensor. Especially today it seems difficult to believe I could be loping along so slowly.
As a test I am putting the sensor back on the Adidas Untying Boost™ shoes for my next run to see what happens. I’m looking forward to being able to ditch the sensor altogether, possibly in the fall once all these crazy new smart watches have come out. It looks like between Google, Apple and everyone else there will be about a billion of them.
The one other good part of the run: I actually walked back instead of taking the SkyTrain. I sat on a bench and gave my left foot a five minute rest and managed to walk back without any great discomfort.
