3 hours today

Met Jason for a couple of hours to keep him company this morning at 6:15am. He started at 9pm and ran the trails through the night as training for his upcoming Leadville 100 miles in August.

After 1.75 hours with him, Mer, Dan and I split off and did some more trails at a higher speed. Overall, just under 3 hours of trail time.

It was fun, but my stupid hamstring just won't get better. Part of me is strongly considering 3 weeks of no running to try and see if it fixes itself.

I dorked out and brought my iPhone again to track the run. I then played with some free software on the web and extrapolated some interesting stats. I won't bring it on every run, but from time to time on the longer stuff, it'll be fun to map it out and see what it tells me. Especially since you can really get silly with the analysis.

take a look:

According to topofusion (free software) and analysis it offers, it says we did this much climbing. (the s/w offers many different theories you can consider)

TopoFusion: 2302 ft

Straight GPS: 2329 ft

Straight DEM: 2037 ft

TopoUSA: 2044 ft

Training Center: 2245 ft

Custom Algorithm: 2302 ft

Based on my height and weight, it says this was my output:

GOVSS Score = 1939.89

Lactate Adj. Power = 206.60 W

Average Power = 154.42 W

KCal Expended = 479.49

Click on the photos to enlarge.

as you can see, we stopped a few times to refill water and let Jason eat etc. so the pace was slow and the stops were frequent on the first 6 miles. We then picked up the pace considerably.

Pretty cool for just $2.99 and free demo software.

Unfortunately, the arm band i bought sucks. It won't stay tight with the amount of sweating i do in this miserable heat and humidity. May have to play with safety pins.