im going to have to go and do another visual of this.

we're talking 30-40m either way, but it's bugging me as google maps doesn't make sense.

the run I did 22.29 for is somewhere between 4922m and c5060m.

I can't be assed to go down there again.

I KNOW google maps is wrong though.

Basically, I'm doing a there and back 3 times, which seems to be 665m give or take a metre (you can't measure it precisely, because google maps does not depict the junction/bend in the track/path properly.

to make up the remaining 1010m, I ran up and down what I thought was 250m of the final stretch another twice.

But there's something wrong with the layout on google maps, which means I am unsure of the exact distance, because it measures one identified point as being 68m from what appears to be another identified point.

If this is correct, then I only ran 4920m, because i was running to the first of these identified points, but i had the location of it wrong, leaving me 80m short. HOWEVER, I have paced the gap between the 2 identified points, and I made it 34m, not 68. I might be a few metres out, but I'm not 34 m out. And if the distance between those points is actually say 40m, and not 68 (in other words, they have the first identifiable point in the wrong location), then I would have actually done an extra 34*4m, in other words not 80m under, but 50+m OVER.

Buy a smart watch and it will do all the hard work for you

comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 5 minutes ago
Buy a smart watch and it will do all the hard work for you
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Are they reliable? I read a couple of years back, that there were only a couple of them that actually got the distance right.

comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
5k in 22.29 is very good
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Thanks man BTW

Also to TBag if the comment was to be taken at face value.

I do put some effort in tbf.

It's just a very good time achieved very quickly so it's a bit demoralising

comment by Just another Spurs and England fan (U22695)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 5 minutes ago
Buy a smart watch and it will do all the hard work for you
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Are they reliable? I read a couple of years back, that there were only a couple of them that actually got the distance right.
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Mine is, I have a Garmin

comment by Just another Spurs and England fan (U22695)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 23 minutes ago
I did 5km in 23.22 on my treadmill this morning at ~13km/hr

but I think my treadmill needs servicing and is not actually going at 13km/hr
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If that's your first run then you didn't do that time fella unless you're seb coe.

I was a decent runner as a youngster and it took me 3 years to fet up to 5k, and then it took me 25.30, and you're a few months older than me.
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been running on the treadmill for years
i was a good athlete as a youngster
i even did a 10km on my treadmill 2 days before my open heart surgery last year

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Just another Spurs and England fan (U22695)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 23 minutes ago
I did 5km in 23.22 on my treadmill this morning at ~13km/hr

but I think my treadmill needs servicing and is not actually going at 13km/hr
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If that's your first run then you didn't do that time fella unless you're seb coe.

I was a decent runner as a youngster and it took me 3 years to fet up to 5k, and then it took me 25.30, and you're a few months older than me.
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been running on the treadmill for years
i was a good athlete as a youngster
i even did a 10km on my treadmill 2 days before my open heart surgery last year
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Crickey

comment by T-SaliBAG (U11806)
posted 17 minutes ago
It's just a very good time achieved very quickly so it's a bit demoralising
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To put it in perspective though,I actually started the couch to 5k programme some time summer or autumn 2020.

It took me almost 2 years to get up to 5k, or to be able to run for more than 20 minutes.

I have really kicked on the last few weeks (running 34l3 minutes without stopping is something I never thought I'd be able to do during the last 2 years), but it's taken me a long time to get to that point.

34 minutes, not 3413 minutes. That was wishful thinking.

man google maps is weird.

ive walked the track with the blue dot locator on, and what it shows where the path turns is just mental.

anyway, the upshot is that it looks like i only ran 4,860, and that what I thought was 6,670 yesterday, was only 6,450 (still my longest run to date).

that would probably make me at about 23.10 for a full 5k based on this morning's effort



in other news, i think that Turkish women are a genuine contender for the hottest in the world by country. wish to fak i could get my grubby paws on one of them

comment by Phenom (U20037)
posted 2 hours, 48 minutes ago
49min 10km
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that's is pretty incredible tbf.

TBag, this is the guy you're talking about. He did this in about 10 runs from scratch. Bloke's a machine.

Although I would say that I was pretty much at identical pace to that actually when I did my 6.45k (shade under 32 minutes). But I was totally done in after that, and would have needed to slow it down further to get to even 7k.

If I ever do get to 10k (very very unlikely), it'll be a darn sight slower than 48 minutes, I know that.

Last time I checked I could keep pace for 8km at 40mins, but had to stop cos I was doing it on lunch. Been doing a lot of uphill springs lately, so not sure how I'd fare with any longer distance stuff right now

We need to get a TBag v Phenom race going (not during lunch).

In other news:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-62583911

just tightened the belt on my treadmill, it was slipping

13km/hr seems an awful lot faster now

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 10 minutes ago
just tightened the belt on my treadmill, it was slipping

13km/hr seems an awful lot faster now
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Tbag, edin u in the bookclub?

I must have given over 250 likes on TInder in the last few days.

How many have I got back?

0 (Zero)

Nah not sure what that is

they want people to read the same books at the same time, and then share their fascinating insight with each other.

you'll love it.

Have done zero reading this summer, which is really strange.

I'm reading Billy Summers Stephen King. I'm on about page 40 after 10 days.

Soooo.....

5K* 23.30.

* I'm not convinced that it's only 5K. I went today based on the blue 'your location' dot, even though that takes a short cut against the route actually depicted on google maps (overall about 200m extra).

* About 1km of this route is uphill. 1km is also downhill, but I'd take flat any day of the week.

* I started later today so it was already hot when I finished

That is the first time in several runs, that I've been totally exhausted at the end. Wailing like a god knows what at the top of my voice for 30 seconds, then just collapsed on a bench for a few minutes. Literally wiping the sweat from my eyes to be able to see.

I did the first 4k (4.2k?) in 18.05, which felt like a decent pace. Then had to stop for 30 seconds. God knows how slow I was going for the next 750m (all flat) because I fast sprinted the last 250, and that last K still took me 4.55+ the 30 second break at the start of it.