So I just err on the side of recording less burned calories than I actually burned. I use the 11.5 minute mile setting, even though I ran an 11 minute mile over 11.35 kilometers today which is a 6:44 pace – to stick with the metric system. I just have to dabble in the American system so I can easily and quickly find an estimate of the calories I have burnt. I simply must look for a metric equivalent online.
Anyway, the trail run today was hot as usual because I am running in the hottest part of the day in order to get acclimated to the heat for my upcoming race July 17th. The wild roses are blooming profusely and the fragrance is totally overpowering. It’s almost like a bunch of glass perfume bottles smashed on the floor in a cosmetic shop, but without that toxic chemical artificial stink. The fragrance surrounds you as even though it is extremely nice, it can be so strong as one runs through hundreds of meters of it that it is a bit overwhelming.
Yesterday, I went to the river valley during a thunderstorm and scoped out some hills I could use for hill training. I tried to check out the actual trails but they were way too muddy for my purposes so I resorted to measuring the asphalt road leading down into the valley. It has an average 12% grade for a slope (pretty steep) and it has a crosswalk conveniently located halfway up. The total distance up the hill is 500 meters, but thanks to the crosswalk I can choose to begin with half that.
Anyway, I am going to go to various online source to read up on hill training because that is what I need. I can’t do too much because my next race is too close, but I can, after that race, make hill training a priority to prepare for my half marathon trail run in Devon’s North Saskatchewan River Valley in September.
I’ll be posting more about hill training later.