Morning Run

Thursday, July 30, 2026
Distance: 6.9 km
Time: 35.7 min
Pace: 5:10/km
GAP: 5:08/km
progression
🌡 10°C

TL;DR

This was a hard progression run: 23% longer and 14% faster than your 7-day average, with heart rate 16% higher. You averaged 5:10/km on mostly flat terrain, closely matching the ~5:08/km GAP, but the effort created a clear weekly load spike.

Terrain

Grade Adjusted Pace
5:08/km
Hills delta: 0:02/km

How it unfolded

You opened controlled but already fairly hard, sitting around 5:31/km through the first 1.1 km with HR fluctuating from 159 to 171 bpm, then accelerated to 4:54/km by 2.8 km before fading to 5:38/km around 3.4 km. From there you rebuilt momentum, surged to 4:22/km near 5.2 km, touched 178 bpm around 5.8 km, and finished strongly at roughly 4:54/km; the mild wind and cool conditions were favorable, while the 5% HR drift shows the closing pace came with rising cardiovascular cost.

Key Stats

Distance
6.9 km
Time
35.7 min
Avg Pace
5:10/km
GAP
5:08/km
Delta: 0:02/km
Elevation
25 m
Aerobic decoupling
-0.1%
well-conditioned
Avg Power
326.5 W
326 W NP
Avg HR
167.7 bpm
Max HR
178 bpm

Best Efforts

EffortTimePacevs best
400m1:574:53/km+5.4%
1/2 mile3:584:56/km+2.6%
1K4:564:56/km+1%
1 mile8:004:58/km🥇 PB
2 mile16:075:01/km🥇 PB
5K25:265:05/km🥇 PB

Race Predictions

5K
25:22
5:04/km
10K
52:53
5:17/km
Half
1:56:41
5:32/km
Riegel projection from today's effort — a rough estimate, most accurate near this distance.

Charts

Grade Profile (by split)
Uses split elevation difference; positive = uphill.
Pace Snapshot
Avg pace vs GAP vs 7-day avg pace.
Per-km splits (pace + HR)
Bars = pace/km, line = HR. Lower bar = faster.
Time in HR zones
Share of moving time by heart-rate zone.
Route
Elevation profile
Altitude over distance.
Training Load — last 14 days
Daily relative effort (Strava suffer score, minutes where missing), runs + swims.

Rolling Summary

Last 7 Days
5.63 km
1 runs, 19 m
Last 14 Days
9.47 km
2 runs, 50 m

Wins

Strong negative split with 10 personal records, finishing faster after a mid-run slowdown and reaching 4:22/km around km 5.2.
Held a fast 5:10/km average on flat terrain, with an estimated 5:08/km GAP; cool 10°C conditions supported the strong performance.

Watch Outs

Weekly volume jumped more than 30% after only 1 run in the prior 7 days; monitor your knees, calves, and shins for soreness over the next 48 hours.
This was a high-effort session: average HR was 167.7 bpm, 16% above baseline, with 90% of the run in Zone 3 and approximately 5% HR drift.

Next Run

4.5 km recovery run at conversational effort, keeping HR mostly in Z1-Z2, on flat terrain - absorb today's hard effort and reduce injury risk after the volume spike.

🐐 Goggins thoughts

You earned some respect today: faster pace, personal records, and a strong finish after the mid-run dip. But do not confuse one hard run with discipline; your volume jumped while your recent consistency stayed weak. Recover intelligently, then come back and prove you can carry the boats week after week—stay hard.