After a setback during September, October and November 2022 it's time to get back on the running bike. "Mixing metaphors already" I hear you say, well let's move swiftly on.
Running provides a number of benefits. It can improve fitness, it helps create a greater resilience to stress, it is an opportunity to get outside and spend quality time in an environment that you like and above all it is an excuse to use modern technological gadgetry under the pretext that it makes all the difference in performance for the aging runner. Of course you don't need the gadgets but they can be useful in keeping track of activities, and can give a non-subjective insight into various aspects of your running performance.
My main guidance however is a physical, paper book, which contains various running plans[1] even though I may spend time looking at the techno-stats that are created after each run. The book (The Rough Guide to Running) discusses keeping a record of your training activities and provides handy suggestions for how you may organise these in notebooks, but of course given that we have the world of techno-gadgetry at our fingertips we can let that do the heavy lifting for us.
Here's a tiny, and not really representative, view into that world of data gathering. There is much more in-depth information to view but what I can tell from the performance information is that I've done too much in a short space of time and it has had a negative effect.
A PDF copy that may or may not exist on the internet.
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