May as well go for broke.

[Charliecat5]

Great effort MLCMM. Your hard work and consistent training is paying off. Long may it continue.

These days I tend to just use a stop watch in races to give me a feel for elapsed time. The effort I try to gauge more by feel. Each to his own I suppose. Would you consider doing away with the technology? Or are you too immersed in having the pace data to-hand?

This is a subject that I have raised before, but one I keep coming back to.  The day (nay the morning) before the Seaford Half, I'd decided to run sans GPS.  The theory being that given my current state, doing away with the technology would mean I'd have a much better chance of running to my bodies view on matters, rather than being a slave to the on-tap recorded pace.  But, like a junkie, as I left the house my hand shot out and picked up my watch.  

However, I reached a compromised.  I used the watch but kept it on the clock face all the way round.  Yes, it vibrated every mile, but I didn't look at the mile summary data.   I knew roughly how I was doing because we left at exactly 9am and there were a few mile markers around the course.  

A really impressive running friend who goes by the name of Dom, is doing a 100 mile race in a couple of weeks.   He doesn't use any technology.  He just goes out (every day) and runs.  I really like the idea, but struggling to let it go.   More than anything I like to know how far I've run.  Bragging rights I guess.

BTW MLCMM... excellent work on the half marathon.  In my book, anything over 5 miles you round the time down to the nearest minute, so that's a 2 hour half.  Great result following Almeria.