Fog sat in the valley the whole climb. Legs cooked on the descent.
Replay flies the camera along your GPS trace and reads back the time, distance and heart rate at every point. Start and finish are the same pin.
Even pacing through the middle, and the last quarter did not fall apart. Fastest kilometre was 6:47, slowest 7:35 — a 12% spread, which is tight for this distance.
Cardiac drift of 7 bpm across the session at a steady effort — that is normal, and lower than it was three months ago at the same pace. That gap is your aerobic fitness improving.
1,420 m of climbing over 24.10 km — that is 59 m per kilometre. This is a climbing day, and the pace chart should be read with that in mind.
168 spm average. It drops in the final quarter, which is the posterior chain fatiguing rather than the engine. Two strength sessions a week fixes that.
77% of this session sat at threshold or above. That is a real stimulus — and it needs 48 hours before the next hard one.
