First a little bit of back story.... I am a new runner of about 3/4 months and have been running in my village, at first about 12/13 mins and then I experimented for varying times 30 mins /45 etc..oh and one hour and a half run which was actually a result of me becoming lost in the local woods, but thats another story. Anyway I settled on a route along the lanes which I roughly calculated with the help of my cars trip meter as 3 miles.
The times were chipped away and my fittness improved -untill the great day --yeah 22 mins-- a great result, woot ! 22 mins for 3 miles I was really pleased and motivated !
THEN.... google earth reared its head. What fun I thought I shall measure the EXACT distance of my run using the path/measure tool.
AHHHHHH....... my run, my beloved route, the place of my finest personal triumphs is not 3 miles but rather 2.5 !
I mapped a new route and ran again toady on a true 3 mile run and oh dear .....
not 22 mins anymore but 27
A whole 5 mins slower then I thought. I thought, just for a moment about not bothering anymore, then decided to treat this as a new challenge and a new bench mark to measure myself against and who knows maybe one day I may really make that 22 mins !
Any advice on how to deal with sets backs of this order will be as always appreciated.
Sho. :d
The times were chipped away and my fittness improved -untill the great day --yeah 22 mins-- a great result, woot ! 22 mins for 3 miles I was really pleased and motivated !
THEN.... google earth reared its head. What fun I thought I shall measure the EXACT distance of my run using the path/measure tool.
AHHHHHH....... my run, my beloved route, the place of my finest personal triumphs is not 3 miles but rather 2.5 !
I mapped a new route and ran again toady on a true 3 mile run and oh dear .....
not 22 mins anymore but 27
A whole 5 mins slower then I thought. I thought, just for a moment about not bothering anymore, then decided to treat this as a new challenge and a new bench mark to measure myself against and who knows maybe one day I may really make that 22 mins !
Any advice on how to deal with sets backs of this order will be as always appreciated.
Sho. :d