Raining today, so went to the new gym where I recently registered as a member (free since I'm a resident of the area, but then I'm only allowed to use that gym). As a consequence, instead of paying £8.75 to use the gym, I only have to pay £4.55.

Ran 4 km in 25:31, with the speed set at 9.5 km/h for the whole run.

Running on Christmas Day ahead of the Xmas dinner tonight.

Nothing major, 5:36 pace, 3.23 km, but got frustrated with several groups of people blocking the entire footpath during my laps.

Picked up my FitBit and reinstalled the running partner app on it and attempted to run 2km in a target of 15 mins. Did it in 11mins according to the app, but Strava logged it as 1.91km in 10:45. Strange, considering both are powered by the same data...

First training entry for a while, I've been lacking in motivation recently to post anything.

Nothing major about today's run, just a quick lap around the park, 2.12km, 5:52 pace, way slower than the 5:22 PB I have.

Couple of days away from home and no time to run. Came back and did a 1.5 lap around the park.

Broke no records with this, and at 5:55, was slower than my last run of 5:27. Weather didn't help though, at nearly 25C

Did another lap around the park, but went clockwise instead of anti-clockwise.

And beat my PB for that way around the park.

Pace was 5:22. Previous PB was 5:35.

Next task is to get to two laps around that park, which should take me to about 4-4.5km.

A quick lap around the park. Felt fast and good, but it turns out I was a 5:27, 0:08 slower than my best time. But the chart looks good:

The pace/HR chart also looks okay. Speed (top line) drops at corners, as expected. The last drop is when I'm turning two corners, and I'm under trees, so the GPS probably dropped out.

The HR (bottom line) was fairly stable between 155 and 170 bpm.

After several days of hot weather, it's cooled down enough for me to get running again. Did my 3k lap and stopped part way to check out the new Leisure Centre that's opened in New Barnet. 5:50 min/km pace.

A hot day today, 30degC in fact, did one lap around the park, and the sweat was pouring, not from exertion, but from the heat.

Also I've noticed. Those dips you see in the chart? They are when I'm turning a sharp corner. I guess since I'm not sprinting through the corner, the GPS logs it as a slow speed. Interesting fact I'll have to bear in mind for future.

What's even more interesting, is that FitBit logs the run slightly differently

You can see the dips here too, but definitely not as extreme as the one in Strava.

One lap again today, temperature was getting high and looks like it's going to be quite high over the bank holiday weekend.

One lap around the park, and made a pretty good pace today: 5:20 min/km and I wasn't really pushing hard. Record for the lap was 5:19 min/km, so I was ONE SECOND short of matching my PB for the lap

Few laps around a very small loop of pavement to make it just about 2km.

And, nearly got myself run over by someone who wasn't looking -_-

After some early rain, took a run on my 3k loop on the run that I did pretty well on yesterday. Lasted through till near the end then dropped to a walk. My pace suffered, and average pace was 6:03 min/km

One lap around the park today. Nice weather, and Strava logs it as 5:46 min/km and "consistent effort", though I had to drop to a walk to waddle through a puddle of water from the recent rains.

Went on a different route today. Decided to aim for 3km and did it, averaging 5:44 min/km, with my PB on the same route being 5:22 min/km.

First run in a long while that I'm actually pleased with. I broke no records in this run, but no matter.

Finally did my 1.5 laps and it was hard.

Surprisingly, Strava logged me as doing one my faster runs, clocking at 5:39 min/km, with my fastest over the same lap is 5:19 min/km

Another one lap around the park, dropped to walk several times, disappointing :(

Made another one-lap. Picked a running playlist from Spotify to run too. Seemed to help.

First song was Pharrell's Happy and the last one was Backstreet Boys.

Cheesy and Corny, but definitely runnable.

Made another one-lap around the park today. Faster average speed than yesterday. Tomorrow, I'll try 1.5 laps.

Went running today, made one lap around my local park pretty comfortably, but my left ankle started to hurt. The same ankle I had a fractured metatarsal on a few years back. Here's hoping it isn't serious.

A few hours later it's eased up, since I'm not putting pressure on it.

I wonder if maybe the cushioning on my shoes aren't up to par now. Maybe I need to gait test again.

Today's run, since I'm no longer using Endomondo's training runs, I did the lap using a constant run, average pace was around 6:07 min/km.

After a stupidly long time without running, I'm back at it. Did a lap of the park and I utilised a new app on my FitBit watch, which lets you set a target time and distance and gives you a running "partner" running at that pace to run against. So in this picture, I'm 22 seconds ahead of my running partner. We are both standing still as I stopped to take this picture.

What is neat about it is that once you finish, you can set save your finish time for next time to try to beat it.

Also, while running, I spotted a rusty old BlackBerry that was lying around

Looks like it belongs to Barnet Council...

After an excessive amount of heat over these past few days, it’s actually cooled down today. Even so far as to have some rain appear. Still rather muggy and humid and temperatures are low 20s even at 10pm.

Saturday and Sunday are set to have showers with low-20s as highs. Finally, I can potentially get back to comfortably running.

Didn’t do my runs for most of this week due to being on call, so decided I had to run at least today.

And I happened to pick the hottest day to do it on, with temperatures set to hit 35degC/96degF in some places….

7 intervals 3min/2min with the first one being 3/3 instead of 3/2

So, 21 intervals today. Most intervals I’ve done in one session, though they were all 60sec/30sec run/walk intervals so they were more or less manageable

7-interval run, with 3-minute interval runs. Forgot to log this yesterday