Weekly-ish running update: what a difference yer fuel makes!

I've settled into this routine now of just doing two 5K runs a week: it suits my mood ATM as I'm just feeling the circuit training more ATM, but one thing doing the SAME RUN over and over again is that it's good for comparisons.

And This last Sunday I did my best 5K in a while. While the pace isn't outstanding, for me, the structuring is near perfect symmetry:

I'm not shitting you:

It's 15 seconds faster per KM, on average, just slowing down a little in the amount of speeding up in the penultimate KM.

I felt pretty good for this run... I didn't really strain too much, expect pushing a little in the final 400 meters, and was surprised when I checked the stats out.

The total time and the route:

Compared to my previous run times...

(Same route)

The difference: some fuel!

This Saturday I ate a bag of crisps and a packet of twirl bites after dinner the night before. Meaning I was VERY well fueled.

OK crap fuel, but fuel none the less. And what a difference!

For pretty much all of the other runs I'd been hitting the intermittent fasting for a day or two before the runs, and I was running HUNGRY, and not fueled.

Also on one of these runs, the slowest, I'd had just TWO pints the night before, I felt those making me sluggish on the run the morning after, just TWO made a difference, only a slight difference, but is was noticeable.

I could go faster on any of these runs, but these days I'm happy just to trot round, for now. Maybe I'll pick up the pace again one day.

Given that I'm not in training for anything, just in a holding pattern, this doesn't matter, but it just goes to show what difference even crap fuel makes to yer run times!