Fun with numbers!

There was a time, lets say a few months ago, when I'd just go out and run 10K or 21K and just call it a day. It was a time when I really didn't care what my splits were, how fast the heart was goin... Just running for the hell of it and doing a lot of listening to the body.

Well, now look at me now. The GPS is firmly strapped to my wrist, the heart-rate sensor is always in place. I do glance at it to make sure my heart isn't going too well and it's teaching me to run at various paces. One benefit, of course, is that I can track my progress on my runs.

Take my sorta-long run of 12.1K (7.5 miles) today. Without the GPS, I wouldn't have remembered that I ran it 33 seconds faster this week with an average heart rate of 147 bpm compared with 150 a week ago. I know that I ran the first 5 miles slower last week, but this week I felt I had more in me. But I also knew my time from last week when I went out this morning...

Too much information? Yep... Fun with numbers? Yep...

This week's splits and (bottom) last week's