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10K, workout #41

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My legs are a lot less tired today. Still, I'm doing only a 12K long run.

The Workout

Today, I'm doing a 12K long run in heart rate zone 2 and I'm finishing with 4 strides to get some feeling of speed in.

enter image description here Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash

Afterwards

Running felt good. Cadence high (ehm, as was the pace, but nothing crazy), but the run felt natural and smooth, without much effort. Funny how you sometimes do not seem to get into the run, and sometimes it just happens, seemingly without effort.

Workout data

If you want to see the workout, check it out on Garmin or on Strava.

10K, workout #40.5

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Because I have a race on Sunday, and I sometimes feel a strength/core workout for days after, I did the weekly hour of strength training today. Plenty of time to recover. Not much else to say about, apart from the usual: it was hard and fun.

enter image description here Photo by Claudiu Pusuc on Unsplash

10K, workout #40

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I still feel my legs are tired from the track workout yesterday, so it's a good thing I'm doing an easy run today.

The Workout

Today I'm doing a 10K easy run in heart rate zone 1/2. Nothing fancy, except maybe for wearing new shoes.

enter image description here New Hoka's (Bondi 6)

I bought new shoes for long runs and opted for Hoka Bondi's, because of the low drop (4mm) and amount of cushioning (insane). I must say that I liked the feeling of the shoes – I was a bit afraid of having that 'wobbly' feeling due to the stack height, but the shoes felt very soft yet firm. What I didn't like, though, was the sizing. I have two other pairs of Hoka's (Cavu, ATR) and I ordered these shoes in the same size. Turns out they're much (!) too narrow in front, so a very tight toebox – a problem I have with the other Hoka's as well – but they also feel just a bit too small. I'm going to try to return them and switch over to either the wide version of the shoe, or a size bigger, or both. Why can't companies sort out the consistency of their sizing?

Afterwards

Back to the run. I could feel I was tired, but I managed to keep pace, cadence and heart rate constant. I had a long day at work, and sometimes that just gives me a kind of worn-out feeling.

Workout data

If you want to see the workout, check it out on Garmin or on Strava.

New calculator: from time and distance to pace

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I've made a new calculator today. You can enter a time and distance, and calculate the average pace. Nothing fancy, bu sometimes it's handy to do a quick calculation like that.

Let's say that you ran a 15K race in 1 hour and 15 minutes. What pace have you run at? It turns out that you had an average pace of 5 minutes per kilometer. And what about a 10M in 59 minutes and 58 seconds? Your pace was 3:44.

enter image description here Calculate pace from time and distance

Check out the calculators, including this new one, at http://www.reuneker.nl/files/runcalcc.

The Jericho Mile

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The Jericho Mile is a tv movie from 1979, in which a man is in Folsom prison – for life. He's not interested in anything other than running and gets scouted by a running coach. After a tragic situation (no spoiler here!) he tries to qualify for the olympics.

enter image description here Still from The Jericho Mile, taken from IMDB. Copyright the respective owner.

The movie is some forty years old and it shows, but apart from that, the movie is great. I sometimes feel not all actors are up to speed, and the dialogues sometimes feel a bit forced, but overall, it's a great watch. The movie did win an Emmy Award, so it's by no means an obscure, unknown movie. A bit forgotten nowadays, I guess.

Oh, something else – The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil plays at just the right moments in this movie.

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