Ran with a metronome on my phone set to 180 to see how close I was to the ideal stride rate. I struggled to keep it up for very long. I was listening to music and the metronome at the same time and was not able to stay at 180. I thought maybe the music at a different tempo was confusing me, so I turned it off and kept the metronome going. I just couldn't physically maintain that cadence. It is going to take some practice to get there. This isn't surprising, but I am wondering what the best approach is. Do I set the metronome to what I can do and do that for a while and gradually work my way up? Do I keep it at 180 and just keep striving for the ideal? Do I ditch the metronome and just check in with the pace every once in a while? I don't know. But now is the time to work on this while I'm not really training for anything specific. I've mainly been running loops then end with me coming down Newcastle. Lately, most of my loops have been going out to the north. Today I went out to the south like I used to do. It was nice change. Timex
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