Ran 17,4 km this morning in Paris

The bois de Boulogne and my trip this morning in Google Earth (click to enlarge)

My coach will be happy, I ran twice around the Bois de Boulogne this morning non-stop, 17,42km which is not that far from a semi marathon (21,0975 km), it will be for next time.

Here are the stats provided by my Garmin Forerunner 301:

tour1: 00:55:38 - 08,79km - av. speed 09,5 km/h - cal tot: 914 - bpm moy: 171
tour2: 00:45:17 - 08,63km - av. speed. 11,4 km/h- cal tot: 954 - bpm moy: 182
total: 01:40:55 - 17,42km - vav. speed. 10,5 km/h

The heart pace is clearly wrong, too high. I tried the virtual partner mode at the second tour and it's pretty cool, you setup your 'partner' at a given speed and run against him. I chose 10 km/h for him and managed to beat him by 1.2 km. It's fun because when you slow down obviously "he" catches up.

In 6 months I went through some progress, in one month my average speed went from 8 km/h to 10.5 km/h which is still quite slow. At this pace I had only 3 or 4 people overpass me during two hours, I guess the average "sunday runner" does more like 9 km/h. The result on my weight in 6 months is pretty good as I lost 10 kg, from 105 to 95...

Last time I ran that much my feet and legs hurt way more, I droped my Nike for my new Asics and I really don't regret that choice, most Nike shoes are just marketing...