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I started this Thursday morning with two different runs on the track: a 5-kilometer tempo run at a pace of 5:13 per kilometer and a 1-kilometer cool-down run at a pace of 6:21 per kilometer.
Both runs went quite well, and I’m happy that I went out again before starting my workday. Today will be a long and intense day filled with meetings and presentations I need to prepare for.
I promised myself I would pick up my training schedule again this week, so I did today with two separate runs on the track. I did one 15-minute warm-up run and another 28-minute progressive tempo run for 43 minutes of exercise in total.
After stretching on the back of the first run, I started my tempo run, which combined a 5-minute warm-up with a 12-minute ‘out’ and an 11-minute ‘back.’ In my ‘out’ laps, I covered a total distance of 1,96 kilometers; in the ‘back’ run, I covered a distance of 2,28 kilometers.
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.
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.
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.
