Last night’s session was mile splits. As I’m tapering, there were only two repeats, so the session was essentially slow mile, fast mile, slow mile, fast mile, done. As I’m stressed, my brain was fizzing, and its topic of choice last night was the way in which running warps time. Measured by GPS, all the splits are even. Measured by time, splits 1 and 3 are long and splits 2 and 4 are short.
But measured by perceived length…well, that’s a different matter entirely.
Split 1 |
Split 2 |
Split 3 |
Split 4 |
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Distance |
A mile |
A mile |
A mile |
A mile |
Real Time |
Long |
Short |
Long |
Short |
Perceived length |
Middling |
Long |
Short |
Never ending |
Anyway. Janathon is over. I didn’t run every day, but then I didn’t set out to. I have done more lunging, squatting, balancing and foam rolling than I care to think about and have clocked up a respectable 150 miles as part of my usual running training. I’ve read more blogs than I can remember, still have a backlog of about 300 to clear and have added some more names to my list of virtual running friends.
I’ll be back for Juneathon, but in the meantime, expect the odd parkrun review, an occasional rant and, if all goes to plan, reports on an ultra or three.
And if you ever fancy meeting up for a parkrun, just let me know!
Ultra or three? Omg
Lol. Two will be training runs for the third so they don’t really count.
I’m pretty sure they will count! Well done on it through Janathon
Well done on your impressive mileage and good luck with the ultras.
Thank you and thank you. 🙂
looking forward to pootling around a (no doubt VERY muddy) Banstead Woods with you tomorrow 🙂
aMAHzing mileage – well done. Glad to see the injury is well and truly behind you.
Thank you. As for the injury, if I survive Sunday I’m declaring myself fixed. Fingers crossed.
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Good going, that lady.
And a great janathon table! We’ve not had enough of them this year. Graphs, pie charts… all that. Love it.
Thought I’d slip one in under the wire 🙂
Brilliant mileage. Hope today proved you are definitely back!
Fantastic mileage! And great efforts on all the foam rolling and other helpful (!) exercises over the course of the month. If you’re ever fancy once of the Cambridge parkruns or the Leamington one, could even stretch to the Coventry one, if I’m at my parents, let me know and if I’m about would be lovely to see you at one of them 🙂