Trying to log Track Tuesday

The previous time I attended Track Tuesday, I decided I really should find out how to log the individual laps. How can you tell you are improving if the only thing you have is the total distance you have covered in the entire session? Chris mentioned that my watch has a track run option. So I figured that would be the way to go. I didn't bother finding out about the details, I must admit.

The track 

When the track session happened (two weeks later; I didn't want to do track training in a week I had both the Bethel 5k and the Snowdon Twilight), we would first do a mile at full pelt. The trainer was clearly inspired by the attempt of Faith Kipyegon to break the four minute mile barrier. And I had decided what speed I wanted to run at. My watch would tell me if I was on it! But then when we started running I realised my watch was telling me things I didn't understand. I started pressing some buttons but that didn't help. I chose to run on feeling. I had no idea how I did!

After the mile we had a bit of a break, and after that we would do ten 400 meter laps. I tried to kick some sense into my watch. It wasn't budging! Whatever buttons I pushed, the screen seemed frozen. In the end I did manage to shut it down.

When it came back on, I decided to just put it back on normal running mode. So I have only a limited idea of what my laps (the ones after I managed to get my watch working again) look like, from how Strava recorded them. Not as laps, but you can see the running and resting in the pace graph. One thing I can clearly see is that I tended to start too fast and then trail off. And that is pretty much what I was trying to avoid. With more data you know what pace to go for. Oh well! Next time maybe…

The training was still fun. And it was quite cool, with some light rain. Good running conditions! 

My next goal is: go home and ask YouTube how do I make the most of my watch. I'm sure it can explain some way of logging the laps. And then next time I might be able to get slightly more information out of it, preferably in real time…