Run Log 20250505

5 May 2025 ·

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.

Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza

4 May 2025 ·

Cold Blood by Robert Bryndza is a crime thriller in the Erika Foster series. This is the fifth book in the series. I’m suffering from completion syndrome reading this series, as I don’t enjoy the books as much as I do from other crime series, yet I still want to read them all.

Food for thought

3 May 2025 ·

52 Weeks – Week 32

2 May 2025 ·

I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday afternoon, I will add a song to my playlist. The aim is to capture my energy and feelings for that particular Friday with the chosen song.

Week 32/52: ZAZ – On Ira

After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year (from October 2024 to September 2025) in one self-curated playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.

March/April running progression

1 May 2025 ·

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.