During the past 7 weeks of training, I have frequented the site www.mapmyrun.com which is great for finding routes of the appropriate distance and I can check how many hills I’ll have to climb during that run. Seems pretty simple, right? Well, apparently I am struggling, because the last few times I’ve mapped out my run beforehand, I seem to end up off track. The first time it happened really was a misunderstanding. We were running on a trail and when we came to a fork in the trail, I decided we should take a Larry instead of a Ralph. Consequently, we ended up on a shorter path than expected and ran 2.7 miles instead of 3.2. The second time it happened I was running alone, so I don’t feel as guilty. Once I got started, I decided to change my previously mapped out route and thought I remembered another route that was less hilly. Throw the flag on this runner for calling an audible because I definitely shot my yardage stats and ran 5 miles instead of the intended 4.5.
This last time, D and I ran together and we ran a big circle around my neighborhood and then an out and back. It’s a very basic route with some good rolling hills. My knee was hurting me, so it felt like we were running slower than usual, so imagine my surprise when we finished our 4.5 miles in 37 minutes. We’ve been averaging about a 9 min mile on our shorter runs, but I knew for sure that we weren’t doing 8.20 min miles. So, I looked up the route again and I’ll be damned if I didn’t have us turn around about a block short of where we should have, leaving us about .37 miles short .
Punt the ball because the quarter back of these running routes went 3 and out. Maybe I need to stick with marked trails or only run routes that end in zero: 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, etc. Apparently when you add a .2 or .5 to the mileage, it’s a trick play in my mind.
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