Data Analyst
I will be racing a 10k at Cheltenham Racecourse on June 13th (as long as the race is not cancelled because of Covid!). My recent PB is a smidge under 51 minutes, but I am targeting a finishing time of 48 minutes. Below is my 4-week training plan. Week 1 is almost finished already. Click…
My Garmin Forerunner 245 watch records my heart rate, stress levels, steps, activities, sleep, location, and much more throughout the day. The resulting data can be viewed on the associated Garmin mobile phone app and via the Garmin Connect web service. The watch is a fantastic piece of technology, but there is no way to…
I have collected my heart rate data for the last 7 months from my sports watch. In order to visualise trends, I have used Excel to bin the data in 5 beats per minute intervals. Below shows this data for the first five hours of sleep for each day. Again in Excel I made the…
I have been looking at training plans for 10k and half marathon runs, and they all quote minutes per kilometre or minutes per mile paces. Looking at it the other way, I want to know what pace do I (or any other runner) have to maintain in order to achieve a particular 5k, 10k, half,…
I set out intending to run for 90 minutes while keeping my heart rate in the range of 160-170 bpm for my weekly ‘long run’, but as the first hour felt so easy, I ploughed on to half marathon distance. The map below shows the route together with that pacing required to maintain my heart…