Let’s do the time warp again

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
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!

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