2018 Week #4

Re-Naming Notice

Moving forward, I am revising the blog title to a much more appropriate "The Uptown Runner" moniker.

The more I observe my own runs within the suburban neighbourhoods, the more I realize of the differences compared to downtown running. More open running space, less traffic stops. More solo running journeys, less so of community-knitted runners out there. And ongoing changing landscapes with non-stop urban development and growth pushing northward in the City of Markham.

Adding Incremental Mileage to Weekly Totals

I have been adding extra mileage to top up my weekly mileage totals for the past four weeks. This is mainly to further build endurance and trying to achieve my goal to reach up to 3,000 km or more by year end. I pushed it even farther to 3,200 km so I have some buffer should I need to take any extended breaks from bodily fatigue or commitments along the way as the days pass by.

New Playlist & Song Sequencing

Here is the nearly complete playlist for next month, now that February is only a few days away!

I am also starting to farm in some relevant electronic dance music liveset from various favourite DJs so I can use them towards my race day playlist. For the past two years, I began to monitor the durations of the livesets more closely. This is so that I can stack them altogether to last through the timing of the race (e.g. half-marathon, full marathons) and see sequence certain segments of the liveset (i.e. when the beat drops!) to guesstimate the elapsed time / distance / pace of the race. This is important to me to roughly determine whether I am ahead of the pace, on track, or falling short of the expected time within the run.

I encourage everyone that cares about timing to do the very same. Sometimes it is easier to use music to track progress rather than picking your brain down to the wire.  Until next week!

​Good training, - MW