When Neil's niece Lois came over to do the Conwy Half Marathon, she taught oldies Neil and me how to share our location with each other. But she didn't stop there! She also told me you can upload a race route into your Garmin app, and then have it give you a strategy for running the race. You give it a desired finishing time, and then it tells you at what place you have to run every individual kilometre (or mile). Very handy!
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| Km splits |
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| Also given as a list |
If you don’t want to know for every kilometre what your pace should be, but just want to know about the various uphill, flat, and downhill bits, you can ask it to cut the route into segments with particular gradients (you can choose how many) and give you target speeds for these.
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| Split pace vs gradient |
The app needs a gpx file for that, and you can make these yourself, even on your phone, in the app itself. So even for tiny club races I should be able to use this, if I want. This might help me with my aim to break all my PBs! Now I only need to be able to run as fast as the app suggests…
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