Scrap and Run: October 2022

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

100 day run streak

I made it 100 days of a run streak. A lot of treadmill miles. I ran at least a mile a day. Lots of days lately have been just a mile with so many house projects going on. I ran 233.17 miles in 100 days. That's an average of 2.33 miles per day! My average pace was 10:03. 36 runs were treadmill runs! I was pushing a stroller during 13 of those runs. I ran 2 5k races and 1 10k timed trial. I ran at least 3 times when I shouldn't have just to not miss run streak days.

At first i might switch up the incline on the treadmill or did some various hill ones where you change incline but then I started just running all the time at incline 2 since the treadmill was less noisy at that incline. I tend to try to set the treadmill speeds faster to get them over with since I was just running to do 1 mile.

I really wanted to hit 80 miles in August and failed and then I thought for sure I would in September and failed again.

The poor air quality made it really hard to hit 20 miles in a week which is what I wanted.

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Perrigo Parkrun 5k (10/1/22)

I decided to do a 5k since it was just my birthday. It's my 2nd Parkrun 5k. I ran my first just over a month earlier on August 27. The course was different this time. It has a different start and finish but you just entered where you run around the ball fields differently and exit differently. That didn't stop the course from being slightly short though.

I wanted to improve and I did!

I was late just like last time. I really need to get out of the house quicker.

I thought I did better for women but apparently some passed me at the turn around and I never noticed.

The weather was almost perfect. It was a great temperature and a little sunny. Last time it was cloudy.

I noticed results posted online before I even noticed the email with my results.

Perrigo parkrun results for event #107. Your time was 00:25:44.

Congratulations on completing your 2nd parkrun and your 2nd at Perrigo parkrun today. You finished in 27th place and were the 5th Female out of a field of 70 parkrunners and you came 1st in your age category VW35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.

You achieved an age-graded score of 59.07%. For an explanation of age-grading, please see the WAVA age grading overview.

I did better than last time but had a worse place. I did better by almost a minute but the course was shorter. I am still surprised how well I did even though I also feel like I could have run harder.

My mile splits were different in all the apps. I made a summary graphic in instagram to show all of them.

I had water with me and forgot to drink any during the race. I drank it after and also drank a little more in the car. I was about as late as late time. Maybe even more late since they started talking about the race before I showed up. Last time my Garmin was set to easy run and this time stride repeats so I never actually had mile splits on the Garmin as I ran. I set my app to run:walk intervals of 1:30-0:15 but then I didn't ever walk on them. I did walk 2 or 3 times during the race.

I actually knew where the PR bell was this time so I went to ring it and someone offered to take my picture. Here she was offering everyone. She used my phone to take it so then I had that to make my graphics. The course was shorter but I still would have beat my last time based on pace. According to NRC the average pace went form 8:38 to 8:22 (and the course was .05 shorter)

Next time I need to leave before 8:37. It's too close to 9 am. I went a different way. GPS told me to go a different way but I just followed along. I liked the way last time better. I came home a different way than I came home last time and I liked last time's better too.

I'm surprised I was 5th for females since I only thought I saw 2 ahead of me. I guess I didn't pay enough attention. There were 70 total runners this time and 69 last time.