Running Numbers

My speed has been improving. Garmin has given me fast goals and I always think I cannot meet them and then I meet or beat them.  I added a few tabs in my google sheet with some summaries. I still have one more to create. 

On March 3 I ran and the average pace was under 10 for 4 miles. If I just set out to run 4 miles, then I feel like I'd never have beat 10 minutes. I don't even know how I did it with a progression run.

The tab of progression runs and the summary is new to see it all in one spot. The goal times vary when I update my race goal time. 

 

I enjoy the Day of the week one. All my long runs kept being Sunday but I did do one Saturday so that distance isn't as short as it was.  I run 4 days most week so I run 2 days in a row once but then there are rest days between the others. 

Recently I ran 2 fast stride repeat continuous runs. It improved my continuous run pace by over a minute! It's funny running straight through but altering the speed ended up making me so much faster than just setting out to run. 

At some point in 2021 I went back through the previous 10 years of data to get total time and average pace for each year.  It's so fun to look at.  Before mid 2012 the runs were very hilly.

I recently added weekly pace and number of runs in a week then I realized you could get that information with NRC app and it also has total time so maybe I should add a column with total time too. 

It's fun to see the breakdown of type of run and speed and distance. The night easy run is just a night run where I needed more steps on step bet so not a full length workout so I didn't want it the same as Easy run just to see. I'm surprised I only needed 1 day because last January and February I did a dozen or more runs at night because I needed steps.  

I really like using Garmin training plans so then I don't end up just doing every run at the same speed. I like varying runs and varying goals and like seeing the splits at those intervals. I also like to use NRC to have mile splits too along with the splits from Garmin. 

Nobody else probably cares about this at all but I do and in a few years I think I'll like to see this snapshot in time so I decided to make it a blog post.