Thursday, February 12, 2009

Empirical evidence

The footpod again messed with the satellite lock and frustrated me to the point where I just ran without the GPS features.

Ran and out and back and at the turnaround point decided to fall back to my old default style of running with longer, lower cadence strides. All the recent practice at running higher cadence actually made this hard. If I started daydreaming my feet would speed back up again.

It was barely detectable on the graphs. Cadence average on the way back was only 3 strides per min slower. Heartrate was up 3bpm. Given the tougher climbs in that direction though I think that is a wash. It may take a longer run, or one with identical difficulty laps or something to get a proper reading.

Kind of interesting that the effort to condition myself to a new style of running seems to be taking hold.

The other weird thing is that it was supposed to rain tonight, with calls for snow on the hilltops, and I was actually disappointed that the system didn't move in while I was on the trail.

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