April 2011

So April, then. Two runs, 12.8 kilometres, and 78 minutes of actual effort across the entire month — which, if I'm being honest with myself, is barely enough to justify calling it a training block. The highlight, if you can call it that, was the Morning Run, which at least suggests I was getting out before the day had a chance to talk me out of it. At an average of 6:05 per kilometre I was moving a little quicker than usual, so there's that (every cloud and all that).

Comparing it to March doesn't exactly make for comfortable reading. Three runs, 19.8 kilometres, and 131 minutes back then — still not what you'd call prolific, but noticeably more than I managed once April rolled around. March also had 202 metres of elevation in it, which suggests I was at least tackling some proper terrain rather than shuffling along the flat. So the trajectory is going the wrong way, which is a slightly dispiriting thing to notice as the weather is actually supposed to be improving. The optimistic reading is that pace is up and maybe the shorter, sharper approach is deliberate. The honest reading is that it probably isn't, and May needs to be better.

Summary generated by Claude