Week 4 - Week 2 & 3 roundup

PHEW OK so evidently it's quite easy to just... run so fast you forget to blog?

I'm at the beginning of Week 4 right now, and it's getting slowly better and better. A friend of mine in Canada just posted on Facebook that 50 minutes used to be her long run, and now it's her short run. Another friend in Alaska just ran/swam/cycled an Ironman. Two folks I know around here just ran a 50K!! How cool is that? My friends are my inspiration.

Strava's Week 2 stats:
14.6 miles in 2h 34m

Strava's Week 3 stats:
11.6 miles in 1h 54m

I'm pretty excited about this... I love scrolling through my feed, because my pace started at 12:00/mi, and it's been creeping down into the 11:00s, and then into the 10:00s and 9:00s (best run so far was at a 9:32 pace)

That's pretty great...

I moved house again, so now my course is around the block, which is just under 5 miles. I can go one way and face mostly downhill, or go the opposite way and face mostly uphill. For long runs I go uphill, and for shorter ones I go downhill... the reason being that the end of the downhill path is shaded, so as I walk through my warmdown, I'm not being blasted by the sun.

Another thing that happened is, I got a Fitbit ChargeHR!

I am so over the moon about it!! I've been using the app in tandem with Strava to track my runs, and to watch my heart rate while I'm running. The data is soooooo much fun to track and it's incredibly gratifying to see numbers increase (or drop).