8 intervals today with two short ones (and that threw me a bit)

Spotted a sign from the local council on a lamp post on the run near the end – apparently, they’d found 2 dead fox cubs with no injuries, implying they had been poisoned, which is in violation of a Wildife Act or something along those lines.

Then on the lamp post opposite “Dog Owners, don’t let your dogs poop on the pavement, clean up after them. You know who you are”

Someone hates animals it seems…

Missed a run due to heavy rain.

Today’s run was a walk/run with 4 intervals

First day training back with @endomondo – more a walk today, but I ran a bit during the “fast-walk” intervals.

I used Endomondo for the voice prompts, but tracked the main workout with my fitbit. This led to my graph being a bit out of sync with the workout graph…

Next run is on Thursday. Well, it’s a walk rather than run…. But start slow, and build up, I guess

I tried (for the second time) to do the next run in the C25K ZenLabs, which was a 22min run I got halfway, then dropped to a walk :(

I checked out Strava’s Premium Fitness Plan offering and dislike it immediately (for a 5K training, it wants you to run 1-1.5 hours as the first run. Seriously?!)

I went back to Endomondo (who have been acquired by Under Armor since I last used them) and their Fitness Plan offering hasn’t changed so reactivated my premium and will start with their C25K tomorrow.

Did the 2x 10 minute runs today and topped 5km according to the ZenLabs app, but only hit 4.85km according to Fitbit (and I kinda trust FitBit more than ZenLabs in terms of distance tracking)

Set two Strava Segment PRs during this run

This run was done on Lineage OS 14. I downgraded back to 14 from 15 after finding a few quirks with that version that don’t sit well with me.

• The ADB connection is very flaky, cutting out a lot, and the charge LED blinks during this time, like something is restarting. I don't get that with 14
• The general battery usage is really bad. I lose between 20% and 40% battery life overnight, whereras I lose only 15-20% on 14.

I might decided to try again at some point, but on a clean (empty) install.

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Re-did my run from yesterday and did it without stopping.

I had my fitbit on and it seemed to have stopped tracking before the end for some weird reason, so this run wasn’t tracked properly…

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5min warmup, 5min run, 3min walk, 8min run, 3min walk, 5min run, 5min cooldown

Everything was fine until the second walk where I got attacked by a Jack Russell. Small, but feisty dog.

Last run I got to 3 mins then dropped to a walk.

I’ll try this again tomorrow and see if I can finish it without walking during a run cycle.

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20 minute run successful. Early morning run to avoid the heat

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My run yesterday was a failure – it was the longest run so far for the C25K at 20 minutes without walking, and I only got halfway.

Damn, I’m out of shape :(

Weather is definitely lower today to a more comfortable 21degC. Early morning run and a nice breeze blowing as I run. 2x 8min runs today with 5 min break in between.

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Week 5 runs starting. 5 minutes, 3 times and a 3min break in between.

Last night hardly got any sleep, and this morning, when I checked the weather, it wasn’t surprising with 89% humidity according to Google and weather.com

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Another early morning run today. No stopping during the four run intervals so that felt good :)

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Haven’t run for a while so picked up on my C25K training where I left off.

Maybe slower than previous, but made it most of the way – dropped to a walk early on run #4

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Today’s temperature was 30degC according to Google….

And I did my C25K runs in this heat….

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Cloudy and slightly drizzly run today.

Played some Eurobeat on Spotify and that was fun keeping time to the beat. Annoyingly Spotify removed the running mode which allowed me an auto-playlist of specific BPM tracks. Now I have no idea what music to play to help keep pace. Spotify have added some static playlists giving a range of BPM, but that doesn’t work as well.

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c25k training. A relatively warm but not overly-hot today. Week 3 runs. 1.5 min run/1.5 min walk, then 3.0 min run/3.0 min walk, then repeat for 4 run/walk intervals.

Felt worked out, but not overly pushed for some reason….

FitBit and ZenLabs were in disagreement about the distance I ran again – ZenLabs said 4.1 km, FitBit said 3.59

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Nice sunny day for running, but my Fitbit Blaze kept losing it’s connected GPS to my phone. My previous watch (Surge) had inbuilt GPS so this didn’t happen.  Possibly the FitBit service was being killed because of Spotify….

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Forgot to log this yesterday. App tracked 3.1km, Fitbit tracked 4.1km

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Starting week 2’s runs

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Final run of the week 1 series. For some reason the app tracked me at just over 1km, but fitbit tracked me at 4km. Probably quirky gps.

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Week 1, Day 2 of the C25K today.

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Also spotted some pigeons cleaning themselves in a puddle

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Back to doing my C25K again and definitely slower. Strava flagged this run as the slowest I’ve done on the route since linking Fitbit to Strava :(

Depressing, but as they say, “When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up”

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God, I am pretty damn out of shape :/

Think I need to get back to doing C25K again -_-

Redid the last Week 9 run and made it through two intervals and just shy of the third.

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Finally finished Week 9. Interval three was a difficult one and my pace went from 5:30min/km to 7:33min/km >_<

Contemplating whether to move onto Week 10 or redo week 9 until I can meet the pace.