I'm not loving using my general fediverse instance to post my running stuff, mostly because I'm not loving the lack of integration and the manual screenshots I need to do etc.

I'd really love something that could just export my run ready to post, with some comments, rather than having to manually craft the whole thing.

To that end, I'm trying something different. We'll see how it sticks.

Anyway, this is my week in running (last week).

Started with a parkrun on Saturday, but I used it as a chance to do a TrainAsOne 3.2km assessment run, which helps the platform assess my fitness by seeing how I handle running 3.2km (2 miles) as fast as I could.

It was a week for assessment runs, as I had two others in the same week. A 6 minute assessment run ib Monday (run as far as I can in 6 minutes) and Thursday had a Perceived Effort assessment (run at a self assessed easy pace for the duration of the run, ideally without looking at the watch).

I finished the week up with a threshold run on Thursday and a Tabata run on Friday. The Tabata is a series of really short intervals (20 seconds) with 10 second cool down between them, but it felt a bit too easy. I feel like I needed more repeats.

All up, 30km this week.

#running #parkrun #TrainAsOne #workout
Enjoying the sunny but cold Derry City #parkrun for run 324, course 124 and time 24.11. Did not back up with the Derry 10 miler half an hour later.

It looks like I’m back to running with horses!

遲來了的「真‧馬年跑」。🐎🌳🏃‍♂️

#Polar #PolarVeritySense #parkrun #loveparkrun

#parkrun app improved a lot since using it last year
Lovely #parkrun this morning with Rich. The full English at the Daleside (with fried bread) was even better!
And this is why I only just made it to a #parkrun this morning. Rolled out of bed and up to Tooting. Beautiful weather, little sign of their “water feature.”

#parkrun number 100 ✅
🎉🎉🎉

Friends made me a crown, which of course I wore for the run.
Quite a fast one for a chatty one, then two extra laps (10km total) as cooldown -- finished that just before the tail arrived.
Multiple turtles spotted again.

Then café in the sun for two coffees while chatting and watching nature in the lake.

Second recovery parkwalk today, at sunny but breezy Cramond. Enjoyed it until the last km when I realised I’d probably overdone it, based on the unpleasant chest pain (don’t worry it’s “normal” for SCAD recovery). Finished a bit demoralised.

At home I realised I might be able to hit 50 parkruns on my 50th birthday so decided to focus on that instead of trying to be faster, and next time I’ll walk a bit slower. Ego suitably chastised.

#parkwalk #parkrun #SCAD #characterBuilding

#ParkRun results are in. Nearly 800 runners this morning and we started quite far back so it was a walking start and took us a while to work out way through the crowd and able to run freely, but still managed to finish under 30 mins, so I'm really pleased with that. I did work for it today but feel like naturally my time is about 28/29, which is about 6 - 10 minutes off what I was running this time last year. Lovely stuff. I also feel clean and fresh and fit and balanced. Viva la Park Run! Huzzah!

Here's me and about 500 parkrunners from this morning. No running for me, I was run director.

#parkrun