I’m getting used to saying this, but today was the longest I’ve ever run - my schedule called for ten miles, and I think I did something pretty close to that. Normally, I’d be a little more confident in my judgement of the distance… but then normally my watch doesn’t reset in the middle of a run.
I’d made it about 3 and a half miles out when, while trying to change the view on my watch (moving from heartrate to pace, or to total time, or something like that), my watch suddenly reset. I started the workout program again and tried to estimate how far I’d been, but 1) I wasn’t completely sure what my total distance up to that point was, and 2) I couldn’t remember where I’d planned to turn around on the trail. I kept going for another mile or so, then turned around and headed back the way I’d come. Happily, the watch didn’t reset again, so the data I have recorded for today’s run shows part of the whole run - even though the software thinks I did it on January 1st, 2003 (the date and time got reset, too).
Anyways, I survived my something-like-10-miler. I’m sore (which was expected : ), so at this point I’m just hoping I recover enough to play some volleyball tomorrow. And after that, I’ll be looking forward to the thirteen miles scheduled for next weekend. Heck, that’s half a marathon right there!
I had a similar thing happen with my forerunner the last two weeks and I was mad! I was running on trails, so I didn’t expect the GPS to work, but the timer just stopped running. The second time it happened was after I was off the trail and on an open street. I reset the timer and then looked into history to see when I started so I could at least run for time (just ran 130 minutes instead of 13 miles). Quite frustrating.
Yeah for 10 miles! 13 will seem like a breeze for you!! Good Luck!
Way to go Ben. I’m working my way up to that, too.
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Thanks, everybody - the encouragement has been really welcome. I just posted about the obstacles I faced this week (poor little me, right?) Look for a post about the thirteen-miler tonight….
I hope everybody’s running strong!
Hey. Congrats on the 10 and now 13 miles. I was wondering which heart rate monitor/watch you’re using? I have a polar 625x, though I’m probably only using 20% of it’s brain. After 4 months, I can finally remember how to pause the chrono and start it again without resetting the workout. I need to do more heart rate training. Too often I just run without thinking about pacing.