Today was Runs for Cookies virtual 5k race! Because I am a HUGE nerd, I ordered myself a t shirt off Vista print from the design Katie did on the blog. :)
I'm still having loads of trouble with my Garmin vs. iPhone app mileage calculations, I am super unsure of my times but I'm pretty confidant now that the iPhone is definitely wrong.
To help out the Garmin pick up the starting signal (it takes close to 3 minutes to find satellites...) I walked .25 to the corner to the top of the wetlands levee trail for a starting point. From what I can see of the online map for the Garmin, it looks like it picked up my accurate starting point this time so yay!
While I did not beat my PR from the CloCow 5k race (which was my first and super hilly), I did reach an amazing achievement - I ran a straight mile without stopping!!!!
Since I started walking/running in August, I've never been able to do that! I ran it in 14:54, which I'll bet is more accurate than my running app (which claimed I did it in around 9:50! No way!) but either way, all technological devices concurrent- I ran that first mile FO SHO!
I had originally intended on ditching Charlie and running on a treadmill in our complex gym or the school's rec center, but I felt guilty so we ran the neighborhoods and quite a bit on a local logging trail. I tried really hard to stay on the flats to help my time and we did pretty good. Charlie only misbehaved a little bit ( ok, a lot, but he was good for long stretches of time and then would have a breakdown, which was more manageable than just freaking out the whole time. )
My official time, per Garmin is 50:53, although my phone claimed I did it in the neighborhood of 35:00. Since I run on trails, I can't check it with my car or anything, so I'm just going to make an executive decision and say the Garmin is most accurate.
I am immensely proud of doing that first mile- the whole time I kept chanting in my head, "sustainable pace!!!" I ran much more continuously overall than I have been and I am definitely relieved to have made it over this hump when I kept pooping out without going very far. I believe moreso now that I'm really gonna be able to do this! I am absolutely making it a personal goal to start intervereling on the treadmill. That has to be accurate, so I gotta try and get a sense of if the Garmin is really right.
When I got home I took a hot shower and made a cup of hot chocolate mint tea- it feels great! I'm so proud!
Here are my two maps, the first is my total distance according to my phone and the second according to my Garmin. (There's a time discrepancy because I stopped the Garmin to discipline Charlie on the way home but the trails walked SHOULD be identical. (Which they don't reflect, of course...)
2 comments:
Wooo! Awesome run! If you want to try mapping your runs on Mapmyrun.com it might be able to give you distances for the trails (it does have a lot of trail systems listed.) But seriously, congratulations on a great run!
Meg, if you hop back on through my posts from the last couple of weeks, you can see the issues I've had with Map My Run. MMR is the one that is giving the bad maps/distances, and that is the diagram you are seeing above! I cross checked on the treadmill and it looks as though that the Garmin is accurate and MMR/Map My Hike are both wrong!
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