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Originally Posted by yooper
So here's the deal. The 5 miles in 35 minute run last week? It was about 3.7 miles.  I took my GPS with me today. It's a Garmin GPS V, basically 1999 technology with a few 2002 era upgrades, it was one of the first units to do WAAS. But it's not the best at seeing through trees so I got a "Poor coverage" alarm 5 or 6 times during today's run when I was in valleys. Looking at the track on the GPS there are several areas where it drew a straight line from where it lost signal to where it re-acquired. It measured 3.5 miles, I am adding a bit to account for the software shortcuts.
So that is a pace of 9:27 per mile. Not bad, but still not 7 minutes. 
Today I kicked my own ass though. I ran 4 GPS measured (3.8 indicated + shortcut allowance) miles in 36:40, for a pace of 9:10 per mile. I am quite sore already from today's run and am sure I'll be very sore tomorrow. |
Phew. I thought you were getting 25mpg in the '40  . 
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