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As covered yesterday, it made the most sense to switch out today’s mid-week ride with the Tour de Zwift 2024 Stage 8 Run, such that I do not have to do 3 runs pretty much back to back next week.
The issue is that during the course of the Tour de Zwift, I have missed two of the eight stages, due to short weeks, recovery, and injury.
What this means is that I will do my SST ride on Saturday, all being well.
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Anyway, all good.
This should then, have been the last run of the Tour de Zwift 2024. But as above, I’ve missed two stages so it wasn’t my last run.
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I’ve decided I won’t stop running after the Tour de Zwift is over, either. I can’t say I enjoy it as much as cycling, but I do like the variety, and I do like being able to run for far longer than I previously could. My aim is to run 5km or so every week, just to keep it up. I’m also quite keen on trying out some of the Zwift running workouts.
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As is pretty common with Zwift events, the numbers drop off a cliff as the series goes on. I think 22 started today’s run, which is my first mid-week Zwift run, so I don’t have many to compare it too. However by comparison the 1pm Ride event had over 1,000 participants. I’m sure I remember there being around 80 or so in my first run.
Not that it really matters.
For whatever reason, my chosen pace – 10.7kph today – seems to put me out solo. I guess people either run at 10kph, or 11kph, rather than at some value in between.
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It doesn’t bother me. I’m still gradually ticking my number up, with the aim of going up 0.1kph every run until I hit a pace I feel is unsustainable over the 5km distance.
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As a result, today I managed to run a mile in under 9 minutes. I got an achievement for that. Again, mega progress from where I was just 5 weeks ago.
One bad thing today is that I managed to boot my Zwift Runn off the treadmill with about 1 minute left before the event. I have been thinking for a while that I need to move that gadget to the back of the treadmill for that very reason. I’ll do that later this evening.
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Other than that though, I cannot say I have yet experienced a runner’s high, but I am very glad that running for ~30 minutes now is nowhere near the crazy ask it was at the end of 2023.