Running log for Spring/Summer 2020 half marathon training program. See training plan. Date Distance Pace/km Feeling 19th May 4.8km 6:08 Sluggish 20th May 4.8km 5:45 Sweaty, determined 21st May 4.8km 5:31 Sunny run in the shade 23rd May 6.5km 5:37 Regretted the uphill finish into a headwind 26th May 4.8km 5:24 Fast and free (on […]
Yesterday was a day of conscious speed – or at least pace control. Today felt like a day of unconscious speed. I know that’s the point of pace runs, but it’s still nice to feel the benefits. Overall, I know that I’m still slow, but after a week or two of puttering along close to 6:00/km, […]
4 mile race pace run today. Reasonably early start for me, heading out of the house just after 7am, walking up through the cemetery to start near the Sheen Common (?) gate. With a light warmup along the way, I was more ready to start at pace than I usually am. I set my goal […]
I ran a true out and back today, heading down Queen’s road for 2.4km before turning around and running back, up the hill, in the opposite direction. Seemed straightforward enough as I didn’t feel like spending too much energy in trying to get creative. The run itself was fine – I’m noticing a recurring trend of […]
After two months out of work, I returned to the (home based) workforce this week. That’s given me more time than I’d like on the computer, so I’ve cut back on outside of hours computer time, meaning this is a single update for the entire week. Three mid-week runs and one long run this week. […]
Animation has proven to be trickier for me than expected. The individual lessons and examples mostly make sense, but I think the challenges at the end have exposed that I didn’t learn enough about the programming side of animation as I should have. The challenge was to go back to the Flags app and apply […]
Long run today, up to 5 miles or 8.2-ish kilometres. My primary goal was to not run too quickly. Embrace the long, steady distance run. Mission accomplished. As usual, the first km wasn’t too fun as my body works out the kinks – I guess it’s okay to use that time as my warmup but […]
Another fun project, this time called WordScramble. You’re given an 8-letter word and are tasked with finding as many unique words as you can based on the letters in your assigned root word. From a Swift(UI) perspective it involved a List, TextField and Alert – pretty straightforward things now. More interesting were the aspects of importing […]
Challenge day with the app today. First two parts (changing VStack to Section and Stepper to Picker) were pretty straightforward, at least when I snuck a peak at some code and documentation. The third part, about taking the recommended bed time out of the alert and displaying it with large text was pretty easy as […]
Pace day, a day late went fairly well. I think I ran too fast – averaged 5:00/km – definitely not a pace that I could maintain for a half marathon at this point. Though I’m not sure I could maintain any pace for 21km right now. Today I ran the reverse of yesterday’s route, probably a better […]
After a rough night of sleep (mostly thanks to Frank), I didn’t feel up to my scheduled run at race pace. I still did manage to get in a run. I took a new route, starting near the cemetery entrance, heading east to Roehampton Gate on Sawyer’s Hill toward Richmond Gate and then back toward […]