The end of week 7 of week 16 of my training program, and this is the furthest I ran in my entire life. I was supposed to run on Saturday morning, but my 5km chiong on Friday night left my calves a bit cramped, so I decided to rest. My grandmum's birthday party was on Saturday evening, so means I had to postpone it to Sunday.
I started off around 9 pm. I tried to run a negative split, but I didn't execute it perfectly. Started around 6:45, and was trying to monitor the average pace and bring it down to 6:30. It went down to 6:28 in the middle of the run, but it crept up to 6:35 towards the end.
Runkeeper stopped suddenly at 21:08 km, most likely because due to my sweaty body, it register a click on stop. I restarted it and finished the remaining 1.5 km and merged them manually together later.
This would also have been my fastest 21 km, clocking in at 2 hours 18 minutes.
Fuelling Notes
1. I tried the GU chews (instead of the gels I usually take) at the 45 minute mark. It was interesting, and I have bought another 2 more packets to try. Took quite a bit of water to wash down though.2. I took another gel at 1:30
3. I was considering taking another one at 2:15, but I decided to save it as I was expecting the run to finish by 2:30
Route
I decided to run down Bukit Timah Road to Newton Circus, and all the way up to Grange Road, before taking my usually route through Holland Road/Clementi Road back. This route has a LOT of traffic lights and a lot of noisy traffic. I could barely hear my podcasts while running. I think I will go back to my normal routes through the PCN (Park Connector Networks): a whole lot quieter, and less traffic lights.
After note: The caffeine in the GU probably kept me awake the whole night (I cut caffeine out of my diet now, and my tolerance to caffeine have always been quite low). Plus I had a mild sore throat didn't help. Slept early on Monday night, and probably tonight too. Looks like I have to skip Monday's workout (was thinking of doing a "makeup" on Tuesday.
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