I ran 15.5km this morning! The longest I've ran in about 10 years now, and still plenty of fuel left in the tank when I finished. 3 months until my half. Feeling good!

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I did a run today, but I ran against power instead of pace. In theory, I think I prefer it to running against pace, as power is more immediately responsive than pace, yet also somehow less inclined to weird momentary GPS fluctuations. The biggest issue I had was the implementation on my watch. When running to pace, TrainAsOne sets a pace band that I try and keep in the middle of, but when I manually created a run by power, I couldn't define my own power range. All I could do was choose "Power Zone 1", "Power Zone 2" etc, which each zone being much wider than the range I was used to.

So even though it felt better when I was running it, the need to manually convert and create the run, instead of having it auto sync from TrainAsOne, combined with the overly broad ranges I was limited to, I don't think it's quite "there" enough for me to use on the regular.

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Today's run. Tomorrow off, and then parkrun on Saturday.

This week was a bit easier than last week. More speed work and less miles so my legs don't feel as fatigued as they did this time a week ago.

I'm also running in a new pair of shoes, as even though my old one were only at half their distance lifespan, I could feel the torsion in my shin occurring again, as the shoes lost their support. This is the same issue that caused my stress fracture several years ago, and that's not an experience I'm keen to repeat.

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Here is (most of) my lifetime of running, as shown in TrainAsOne over 11 years. It started when I was 39, and shows up until now, when I'm 50.

It includes two bouts of pneumonia, three surgical recoveries, covid lockdowns, and a hormonal gender transition.

What's facinating to me though is that my current total load is almost equal to what it was when I was at the peak of my running form, and my acute (short term) load is higher than it was back then!

The second image shows the change in my pace over those years. Each line represents my pace at a different point, whether it be my pace at my VO2Max, my lactate threshold or my maximum running efficiency.

Looking at it all in one place didn't really tell me anything new as such, but it's pretty amazing to be able to view my entire running history in one place like that

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2 days ago, I did my longest run since 2020 at just over 11km. Today, I ran just over 12km, making it my new longest run since 2020.

And it feels easy! Which is great, because that's how it used to feel! It's not fast, but I felt like I could have just kept going!

I'm being careful not to overdo it by making sure my milage doesn't increase drastically from week to week to give my soft tissue and bones time to adjust. But my cardio system is chafing for more!

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An 11.3km run today, which is my longest run since 2020!

The weather was nice, the pace was easy, and I felt good when I finished!

Love it!

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Another week of running down! 16 weeks left until my HM.

This week, I had a slightly easier week than last week. Just over 4 hours on my feet, 34km down. Aside from parkrun and a single Tabata run on Tuesday, it was all slow training miles. Next week should pick up the pace a bit, with more speedwork planned!

One of the challenges with my running is that I'm carrying more weight than I want to at the moment, which is making it harder to hold pace, as I tend to overheat more than I should. The cool weather will help, and hopefully I'll reduce my body fat levels too, but that latter effort is happening a bit more slowly than I would like.

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My week in running

Just under 40K in total for the week. I started with parkrun and a couple of shorter interval style runs, and finished the week with a 9km and 10km run.

Next week is looking to be similar!

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10km done and dusted!

My first 10km in 18 month, since I did the Bridge to Brisbane in 2024.

A long way from when I used to run 10km everyday, but that was chasing away demons, but equally, a long way from not running at all!

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Yay, tomorrow is my first scheduled 10km run in a while. I've had several that have come close to 10km, but slightly under, but tomorrow, I'm going the distance!

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