What did you use to plot your route? I have been using Strava quite a lot recently, but if I downgrade from premium, looking for other options for plotting routes that avoid main roads without ending up completely off road.
I used the route planning on the Hammerhead website but it will import routes from Komoot and others. In the past Iāve always used Garmin which is mostly ok apart from a few quirks where it wonāt cross roads sometimes. The devices itself warns when the road surface changes so the Hammerhead site must know what is gravel etc.
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I found Komoot pretty good to get started with routes.
Plotaroute is a good route planner, but doesnāt give you any suggested/common routes etc, but it does sync with Garmin.
Easy 6km run in 32.21. Used a brand new pair of Clifton 8s Iāve for over a year. Thereās nothing like that ānew shoe bounceā to help a run along. 
Might use them on Saturday.
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Today i discovered the difference between sitting on my laptop the night before and carefully plotting a new run route in an unfamiliar route vs. glancing at my phone 2 mins before i leave, and trying to commit a rough route to memory! 
My 10-12km run turned into 17kms. I had a feeling quite quickly that iād missed a turning, but as i wasnāt strapped for time i thought iād carry on and follow my nose. Ended up with part total grotty run through not the most pleasant towns and roads iāve ever experienced but part lovely country lanes.
I also had a major life highlight in getting the chance to see a barn owl hunting over a field for a good few mins. Up to now iād only ever seen them (in the wild) as fleeting white silhouettes caught by my headtorch or car headlights, occasionally at dawn or dusk. But this was about 0700. Beautiful, but bright, low sunshine, which the owl was using to cover itās approach. I quietly snuck up to the hedge and just watched it going round and round, stooping, but not catching anything before it flew off to another field. Was properly made up after that!
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Those errors can be great tho for ending up being a regular route. You might run the correct way and thinkā¦ ānah!ā
I love contrast in runs. A good run has texture - urban, country, track, road, hills. The whole gamut of sensory flĆ¢neur ā¦ ism lol
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Had similar a number of years ago on the bike - a barn owl was glding down a hedge line next to the road I was cycling on. We kept pace together for about 400m.
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Iām looking up track sessions - some stuff for 1500m even - mid life crisis lol
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Double training day.
Up early, 8km run. 35 minutes. Pancake flat.
Will gym for 50 minutes tonight.
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5x5 lifting am
13km @5:54/km pm
Does avg moving time include walking but not standing still? We were runnin 5:30-5:40 most of the time.
Interesting view of power vs pace:
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7.1km lumpy run, before a day in the big city.
31 minutes. 92m elevation.
IT band issues still there, but can get through the run mostly pain free. Lungs, on the other handā¦
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Have you checked your TFL for tightness? That usually triggers my ITB
C2 Workout of the Day - Tabata Challenge - 8 x 20secs with 10secs between each then 4 mins gentle row, repeat x 2.
Fucking hurt but a good test of not just fitness but technique as well.
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Nice
Met a lad who is 5 th in the world at the flat out 1 min 401 Mās !!!
Doing hyrox next year ā¦ mid thirties ā¦ Iāll take him !
Nice fellaā¦ far too big to run quick !
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some of the 1 min times are bonkers - usually big powerlifter types
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Heās a very fit guy for a 16+ stone body builder type
Does burpees for fun, itās my run speed v his strength!
Iām pretty sure he has some ā help ā but unlike others doesnāt openly admit this.
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back in the day - in my early 30s - I knocked out a 1:24 500m time which was well up there in the rankings. I was a very fit 16stone rugby player (prop) at the time - only drug was alcohol!
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Busy week for me so far. A training partner asked me a while ago if I wanted to do 100km with them. Stupidly said yes! We have to walk 100km in 24hrs. Easy you think, until you realise how slow progress is when you are walking. If all goes well itāll take us around 20hrs walking plus any breaks - maybe 22hrs in total 
. Also Iām discovering muscles that I seem to only use when walking on easy terrain 
So far this week:
Mon: 2hrs 55min - 15.85km 368m vert
Tues: 2hrs 56mins- 15.85km 368m vert
Wed: 2hrs 18mins - 12.61km 290m vert
Got a longer walk planned for the weekend - 6hrs, will hopefully cover 30km.
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How much vert in the 100km?
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