Morning has broken me

Morning has broken me by leecolgate at Garmin Connect - Details

I realise I'm starting to sound a bit broken-recordish on this theme, but at least it's a diversion from my usual griping on endlessly about hills (which I still hate - may have picked the wrong half marathon!) and headwinds (which have actually been pleasantly light and refreshing recently).

In line with my recent commitment to properly test myself and try to improve as much as possible before the big day, I set the target pace for the 2 15-minute 'steady' sections of  today's run at 8:30 to 8:45 per mile and the last 5 'hard' minutes at 8:00 to 8:15.

The GPS troll was shouting at me endlessly to start with and telling me I was running at over 10 minutes a mile!  I absolutely, categorically refute this and was looking forward to writing it off as technology failure when I looked at the map.  But I can't.  It really does seem to have got the start point right, and to have correctly tracked my route.  So either there's a tiny issue with the distance measurements linked to the route today, or I really was entirely rubbish.

I definitely performed better on the second section and this is borne out by the numbers, but again, I thought I was doing even better than the measurements would suggest.  The only silverish lining is that I hit target for the last 5 minutes, doing 8:11 on this bit.

Heigh ho, I will hopefully get out again tomorrow morning before a baby day I'm very much looking forward to.  Apparently, Aidan has learned some new tricks since I last managed to see him a couple of weeks ago.  And we're all off out for a picnic in the park complete, apparently, with a music bus.  Should be an absolute scream!

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