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I completed another easy recovery run here in Barcelona. Running in this city is fun as there are always so many people running on the streets after a workday. While I’m still a tourist in Barcelona, it is great to experience that I can run through the city without using a map.
With only 6 hours of sleep last night due to an early flight to Barcelona this morning, my body didn’t recover well after yesterday’s 12,8-kilometer long run. So for today, I only completed a 15:00 minute recovery run on the famous Avinguda Diagonal. I trained intending to keep my average heart rate below 130 bpm, which I successfully achieved.
While this is technically Week 7 of my half-marathon training plan, I needed to return to Week 4 training levels to pick things up again.
Week 4 of my training schedule ended on April 20th. Between then and May 5th, I could only complete four runs, which is now leading to this setback in my schedule. While my initial goal was to increase my pace, I have now adjusted my goal to completing another Half-Marathon distance under 2 hours. The reasoning is twofold:
Finishing under two hours would still be an improvement compared to my last half-marathon distance run on March 30th of this year.
| Date | Duration | Average Heartbeat |
Distance | Pace | V02Max | HRV | RHR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 7 | 2:56:27 | 156 bpm | 29,6 km | 5:57 | 41,6 | 59 ms | 59 bpm |
| 20250511 | 1:24:20 | 157 bpm | 12,88 km | 6:33 | 41,5 | 54 ms | 62 bpm |
| 20250510 | 16:15 | 160 bpm | 3,24 km | 5:01 | 41,6 | 68 ms | 60 bpm |
| 20250508 | 6:28 | 149 bpm | 1,02 km | 6:20 | 41,6 | 61 ms | 58 bpm |
| 20250508 | 26:18 | 167 bpm | 5,04 km | 5:13 | 41,7 | 61 ms | 58 bpm |
| 20250505 | 28:00 | 158 bpm | 5,03 km | 5:34 | 41,7 | 54 ms | 57 bpm |
| 20250505 | 15:04 | 145 bpm | 2,43 km | 6:31 | 41,7 | 54 ms | 57 bpm |
I updated this website last night and made some final CSS changes to the front page this morning. I’m happy with how things have turned out. As you can see, I decided to design the front page around the topics that matter most to me: Running and Photography.
Apart from updating the design, I also updated the technology behind my site. As a result, everything posted here is automatically shared with the Fediverse. The easiest way to follow updates remains RSS, but if you prefer seeing these updates in your favorite Mastodon client, you can also follow the account @blog@camiel.schoonens.nl.
Now that the design and technology are in place, I will start structuring my content differently to make the overall browsing experience more consistent when browsing different site sections.
[Read more…] about Website UpdateTo assess my running pace, I repeated the same interval workout today that I did on March 26. While I’m not quite back to where I was a little over six weeks ago, I am pleased with today’s training, as I was able to increase my pace for each set.
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