I've been using SportTracks to try and gauge whether I'm improving my pace over my distance runs as time progresses - this in part to try and alleviate some of the disillusion mentioned in the last post.
As I have varied my runs it was not easy to find comparable distances to compare, particularly distances with similar challenges. I found one run from mid March and one from the end of May, and plotted 1/4mile splits. These runs were not identical, but essentially 10km down and back up the river Taff.
The trends are quite similar, but I hope it is not wishful thinking to say that my splits have improved over this period. The first shows my splits rapidly approaching 11 minute miling and then being largely maintained. In the second my splits are well below 11 minute miling throughout. The overall time 1.07:15 for the first, and 1.03:28 for the second seem to corroborate this.
I intend to repeat this run soon for comparison again - and in my striving to conquer the 60minute 10K!!
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