Strava’s a bit slow this afternoon.
Anyway I had a run out to Belton and back, eschewing the “figure of eight” route of old in favour of a more circular route through Coalville and Thringstone, intended to moderate the elevation a bit.
Quite pleasant, almost spring-like. But I had to contend with a bastard of a headwind coming back south, along Top Brand. Right knee hurt all the way round – possibly as much a consequence of the slant board exercises I was doing last night, as recent cycling shennanigans – but I don’t think I’ve done it any harm and it didn’t get any worse. More typical joint pain than the stabby, raw pain I get sometimes.
I trialled a new GPS phone app called “GPS logger” – quite a straightforward app that simply records your track to a GPX file on the phone, but the interesting thing is that you can set the logging interval – so you could set it to record only every 30 seconds, or even once a minute, or longer. Might be handy for long distances if you need to save phone power. Perhaps useful for keeping track of where you went on a long car journey.
I had it set to record the position every 6 seconds. As you can see from the following two samples the GPS Logger track is cruder than the Strava app track which I recorded at the same time, but still does a pretty good job of tracking the route.
Anyway – 15.29, which takes me to 305 this year. Another 29 to do this month to reach the 156 target. But probably no more cycling until Friday at the earliest due to other commitments.