Camiel Schoonens

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Running

March/April running progression

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This is a follow-up post to my earlier post on measuring my progression in my running activities. I’ve added the months of March and April to my stats for 2025 below.

If you are interested in my individual runs, you should look at my 2025 Run Log.

Where March was a very good running month for me, April has been somewhat disappointing. I had to give in on my average pace and on my total duration spent running. The drop in pace and duration is primarily due to some fatigue I’m dealing with due to a hectic month at work.

Jan ’24 Jan ’25 Feb ’24 Feb ’25
Runs 12 18 4 13
Avg. Pace 6:08 5:52 6:25 6:11
Time 8:09:25 9:43:58 3:55:45 8:26:16
Mar ’24 Mar ’25 Apr ’24 Apr ’25
Runs 15 21 11 17
Avg. Pace 6:58 6:05 6:14 6:28
Time 10:55:26 14:15:38 9:04:46 8:18:15

I’m going to try to pick things up again in May and June, as I’d like to be fit enough to run in the Italian hills this summer.

Run Log 20250430

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This was my much-needed 6k run after three days of walking through Berlin. I took it easy tonight as my legs are still tired from the 25000 and more steps I did for the past three days while walking through Berlin.

Overall, April 2025 hasn’t been my best running month of the year; with a little over 77 kilometers run, this is the month with the fewest kilometers in the year to date. I should accept this given the travel I had planned for this month (nine flights, six different cities, two continents), but I experience I have a hard time dealing with the results.

On to the next month it is, no complaining, only more training. Next week I’m back to the half marathon schedule I was working with, I will go back two weeks in the schedule to pick up things from there.

Run Log 20250426

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This Kingsday run is the first and only run I can complete this week. I’ve been traveling Europe since last Monday evening, and I’m only home today as I will be going to Berlin tomorrow with my son for a father-son trip.

Week 6 of my half marathon training plan

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Week 6 was a good week for running. I slowed down on my longer and recovery runs and intensified my training during my two interval/speed runs. I covered a total distance of almost 28 kilometers this week, more than double that of last week.

Date Duration Average
Heartbeat		 Distance Pace V02Max HRV RHR
Week 6 2:54:53 145 bpm 27,9 km 6:15 42,6 64 ms 57 bpm
20250420 27:12 160 bpm 4,01 km 6:47 42,3 73 ms 58 bpm
20250420 18:59 145 bpm 3,61 km 5:16 42,3 73 ms 58 bpm
20250418 29:35 151 bpm 5,26 km 5:38 42,6 60 ms 56 bpm
20250416 22:07 138 bpm 3,00 km 7:22 42,7 61 ms 58 bpm
20250416 15:00 129 bpm 2,03 km 7:24 42,8 61 ms 58 bpm
20250414 1:01:56 151 bpm 10,08 km 6:08 42,9 60 ms 58 bpm

My weekly totals:

Date Duration Average
Heartbeat		 Distance Pace V02Max HRV RHR
Week 6 2:54:53 145 bpm 27,9 km 6:15 42,6 64 ms 57 bpm
Week 5 1:28:14 143 bpm 12,7 km 6:55 43,1 65 ms 56 bpm
Week 4 2:43:14 148 bpm 25,21 km 6:29 43,1 61 ms 58 bpm
Week 3 3:44:11 155 bpm 37,52 km 5:58 43,3 64 ms 58 bpm
Week 2 3:23:30 148 bpm 33,4 km 6:05 43,3 62 ms 56 bpm
Week 1 3:19:48 151 bpm 32,63 km 6:08 43,4 54 ms 54 bpm

My run log has more 2025 running stats. My personal best in the half marathon is 1:43:07, which I’m trying to beat with this training schedule.

Run Log 20250420

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I started Easter the right way with two different training sessions on the track before going out for our family Easter brunch.

Training one was about shifting gears between different paces, training two was at recovery pace.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”