Fitness Run

Distance: 4.14 miles
Time: 41:52
Pace: 10:06 min/mi

Comments: My legs felt very lethargic today. Particularly during the warm-up portion of the run and on the big hill. Not sore or achy. Just... drained, weary. I slept pretty hard last night. Maybe that's it.

Whatever the case, I ended up doing this one a bit faster than I expected. The second mile in particular was pretty quick. According to heart rate, the vast majority of this run was in my long run range. So, hopefully, that means progress.

I am way behind my 80-miles-per-month schedule for August. I need to look at how to catch back up in the next week or so.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.13 miles
Time: 41:38
Pace: 10:04 min/mi

Comments: I played around with the GPS tracker yesterday and sorted a few things out. Got a decent reading for today's run but it still is measuring the run irregularly. So it looks like I am running farther and faster than I actually am.

Whatever. I'm just trying to track my progress, not set a land speed record or anything.

Today's run started rough, which isn't much of a surprise. I warmed up pretty quickly and felt reasonably good the rest  of the way. The last mile was tough but "normal" tough.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.24 miles
Time: 41:09 
Pace: 9:41 min/mi

Comments: First run with the new GPS device. This morning was a mess so I got out much later in the morning than would be ideal in the middle of summer. The temperatures were hot, but not as hot as it got later in the day. The humidity as pretty low so that helped quite a bit.

Just tried to keep it slow and steady and not overheat too badly. For the most part, I accomplished that. But since I couldn't sort out the GPS function, the run got truncated and my times skewed. I probably ran this faster than I should have but not a full minute per mile faster.

Still. A nice effort after an irregular few weeks of runs.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.2 miles
Time: 43:00 (approx)
Pace: 10:14 min/mi

Comments: I almost certainly ran this one significantly slower but GPS went haywire on me. It claimed I did almost five miles and my fastest split was 5:26 min/mi pace. Not likely.

Basically this was a normal weekday run. My legs were a little bit weary at the start but warmed up pretty good. Got out earlier so it was mostly other runners and a minimum of amateur hour stupidity.

It's humid again. I missed the (relatively) cool window of weather. Just gotta  get up earlier.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.17 miles

Time: 42:40
Pace: 10:14 min/mi

Comments: Ran this one with an exaggerated cadence to account for my recent injury issue (see below). So, effort-wise, this was not as exhaustive as one might expect for the relatively robust overall pace. My first two miles were probably a little overfast but my whole focus was not screwing up the big hills on the final mile.

In the wake of the the unexpected three-day rest, my legs felt pretty strong. It also helped that the temperature and humidity are relatively nice for this time of year. On the downside, there was a surfeit of Karens out on the course this morning. 

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.15 miles
Time: 39:57
Pace: 9:37 min/mi

Comments: I was pretty stiff yesterday after the hill effort on Wednesday. The first mile today was a bit uncomfortable as well. But things fell into place after warming up for the most part.

My splits were all within ten seconds of each other including the hills, so that is pretty good in terms of consistency. But the 9:37 min/mi average pace is probably a bit on the fast side. Something I seem to be tending toward now I'm not using GPS.

Going into the weekend, the goal is run both Saturday and Sunday with an eight mile on the latter if at all possible.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.41 miles
Time: 42:43
Pace: 9:40 min/mi

Comments: Alright. Switched to Strava for tracking my runs and it seems to have worked pretty well. Not fond of using the phone for this service but it's the workaround for now.

It was super humid out there but with a bit cooler temperatures it was bearable. I felt pretty strong after warming up and finished with a very nice overall pace. Even better, my final three miles were all within 10 seconds -- including the hills

This was the fourth day in a row with a run. I'm taking tomorrow off so I decided to push that big hill on mile four and got a PR on it. The 3:11 on the 80-foot span (4% grade) beat my last best time by 11 seconds.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.23 miles
Time: 41:15
Pace: 9:45 min/mi

Comments: Although Garmin is supposidly back up, I could only get my data by manually extracting it from my device. After wiping the device and resetting it I found it still wouldn't record distance and would hang up eternally when resetting. It's in a garbage can now.

I ran for 20 years  using a basic stopwatch. There is no reason I can't do so again.

That said, today's run went really well. I went a little overfast but there was a gorgeous sunrise. I'm pretty happy I was up early enough to see it.

Fitness Run

Distance: 4.03 miles
Time: 43:48
Pace:  10:52 min/mi

Comments: Garmin, as you will be unsurprised to learn, continues to suck. Once again, my workout doesn't record, my information cannot be uploaded and there is zero information from the company about the shitstorm. The most impressive feature of this $250 brick on my arm is the contempt the company has for its customers.

This run went reasonably well. I started overslow, focused on cadence and tried to keep the effort reasonable. I felt pretty strong on the back half but my overall pace seems unimpressive.

Long Run

Distance: 6.9 miles
Time: 1:14:00 (approx)
Pace: 10:43 min/mi

Comments: Welp. I was being patient with Garmin due to this system outage but today was the last straw. The GPS on my device now doesn't function. It's basically an over expensive stopwatch. Except for the fact you can get the information from a stopwatch. I can't even do that with this piece of shit.

Probably time to go find a new fitness tracking device handled by a company with a commitment to reliability and accountability. Garmin clearly doesn't care that much about those things.

Tough run. Very warm and the sun was brutal on the final mile.