After feeling incredibly unmotivated and laying on the bed staring at the ceiling, content to do absolutely as little as possible, I finally got up, changed and went out for some sort of exercise.
I settled on a walk, but ended up running quite a bit, enough that I lopped almost a full minute off the pace of my previous walk and over seven minutes in total time. I felt pretty good!
After a few drops at the start, the threat of rain ended, and it actually got sunny–and a tad muggy–in the latter half of the outing. I experienced no issues, but did notice my BPM getting to 163 during the second km of the running part, so I cooled the proverbial jets and brought it back down. The two full km of running saw paces of 5:57 and 5:40/km. Even the last km came in at 6:34/km, so generally zippy.
As I climbed the hills in Lower Hume Park and Fader Street, I no longer silently cried out for a giant friendly owl to gently pick me up and drop me off at the top. Instead, I got to the tops of the hills and just kept running. Crazy. I think my stamina is finally starting to notch up a little after its long pandemic slumber.
Stats:
Walk 72 Average pace: 7:38/km Location: Brunette River trail Distance: 8.03 km Time: 61:20 Weather: Sun and cloud Temp: 16ºC Humidity: 64% Wind: light BPM: 130 Weight: 170.1 pounds Devices: Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 12 Total distance to date: 540.57 km