Up with The Sun!

An early start for me today. I did have the alarm set for 5am originally, but then decided not to be so daft! A shame in a way, as it was probably a lot cooler. In the end I got started about 7am, which wasn't too bad, but was still heating up by the end of it. I drank plenty of liquid before I set out, but again didn't have any food. Would have had to eat it about 5am not to feel bloated by it when I ran.

Anyway - here's the graph showing the comparison between this and the run on the 20th June. This time it's a lot closer as I deliberately amde the effort to keep the HR down.

That's all very well, and the graphs are quite close most of the way, but since it's HR plotted against distance, it doesn't show that today's run was two minutes slower, plus of course the one on the 20th was just a few days after London to Brighton, and as I commented at the time, my legs felt dead. Not sure quite what's going on - is it the heat? I honestly can't remember whether it was hot that day or not, but we have had a long spell of hot weather, so it's likely! Then again it was at about 5pm, so I would have eaten.

Anyway - here's the figures. I had hoped that the training, the inhalers, and the various anti-inflamatories would have helped make me run faster by now, not slower, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

Apart from that, I swum half a mile yesterday, and fixed the cadence thingy onto my bike. Must get out there later and give that a go.

EDIT:

Right - well I've looked at the figures a bit more, and come up with the following. Even comparing today (Monday's) run again Saturday - which I thought was crap in itself, there's a few clear oddities. Have a look at miles 3-5 - the HR is the same on both days, but my time is 20-30 seconds per mile slower. I'd say it was hotter at the weekend, as I ran later, and I had more to drink before setting out as well today.