Official new best

With the tried and trusted Google maps route, I got 13:26! Not bad.

Yes I’m not running as much as I used to, but I’m cycling a lot more. By hook or by crook, I’ll reach 11 minutes.
No crappy traffic lights to stop me today (although I was kinda lucky with them being in my favour)

Did I even improve

I stopped the timer 5 times. But still, 13:52. If one day (probably tomorrow) I don't stop the timer but still get a crap timing, I'm fucking done. I can't even use the "you're almost there" excuse, let alone the "you're halfway there" or even "you're improving". Because I'M NOT EVEN IMPROVING BY A FUCKING MINUTE AFTER 2 FUCKING MONTHS.

How to demoralize yourself

1. Run the distance, and get 14min 03 seconds. And already feeling like I'm dying.

If this is the case, 40 seconds improvement in 50 days. It will take 3 months to reach 12 min.

Fuck.

12:47?

Seemed like I finished a run in 12:47. Will do it again. If I really am able to do it again, its an achivement already.

Next post (and Ghost month)

Business as usual during ghost month (8pm-11pm window for running)

Next post comes when I get 1 unique visitor. Until then, I'll say goodbye.

No views

Since I have no views (only 11 for the past month, 7 are mine), I'll sstop this blog for a week. Also to recover my joints.

Running more

2.5km running + 7.4km cycling.
I can sustain 3:30min/km in the first minute or so. Multiply that by 9, and I'm done. Now to train so that I can do that. Doesn't seem so hard after all. (or so I say)

A good day in training

Probably the most productive day to me in terms of losing some weight. And I set a few new records. Yay!

33,377 Steps

76 floors climbed

26.8km Run/Walk distance

9am: Ran 3km
9:45am: Biked 3km

3:30pm: Went to hike up Bukit Timah Hill
and then hiked down to Hillview via the mountain biking trail which I shouldn't be going on. But it was fun!

9:30pm: Felt a surge of adrenaline. I don't know how, but it made me just feel like running again.
So I ended up running 3km more. Walked another 5km to get more steps (and because I felt like it)

Surging adrenaline really works. I can maintain about a minute of 3:30min/km pace! If I can keep this pace for 9 minutes, and only 9 minutes, I have accomplished my goal. But not today. I'll get there someday though.

Fasted Run

Ran about 2.7km at around 9:30am. I heard that it burns more fat because I'm in a faster state, but as a result, it was absolutely tiring. A whopping 21 minutes needed. Still better than the "2.4km in 24 minutes" guy I was known for in school. Time rebuild my pride.

Inaccurate distances

Used Runkeeper today. It says 2.51km in 14 minutes! Yay!
But wait. The path ran looks really jagged. Used google maps, and said that I only ran 2.3km. Time to adjust it!

2.4km in 14:36. Next time it is.

P.S Will run 2.6km in Runkeeper and it should be accurate enough.

Training turned trialing

All seems well when I hit 7.5 minutes at 1.4km (aka on track for 13 minutes), using the Speedometer app. And I hit reset. So I had to extract data from my phone and dreadful news: 15:20 for 2.43km. Time to install Runkeeper (not sure why I didn't do so at the start).

But more positives to take: I jogged the first 700 metres without stopping (and at respectable pace). Was just thinking I was doing a run until I realized I'm actually running quite well. So I started timing. And then I hit reset.

Looking forward to using Runkeeper for more accurate data.