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Faster depending on direction around running route
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Hi
I have recently got back into running after a break for two and a half years. Now very unfit and overweight but enjoying slowly improving.
As a creature of habit i run the same 5km route from my home a couple of times a week. It is a reasonably hilly route. I alternate which way around the loop i run to add some variety. Where I am unfit, i have to walk for around 2 minutes up a steep hill. What I find interesting is that it takes me about 29 minutes to run around the loop in one direction, but i am nearly 1.5 minutes faster in the other direction, despite normally needing to walk a little more in that faster direction! I wondered if anyone else ever found that they were faster in a certain direction around a route and whether it is linked to my lack of strength or fitness, or more linked to the profile of the route?
cheers
Stuart
I have recently got back into running after a break for two and a half years. Now very unfit and overweight but enjoying slowly improving.
As a creature of habit i run the same 5km route from my home a couple of times a week. It is a reasonably hilly route. I alternate which way around the loop i run to add some variety. Where I am unfit, i have to walk for around 2 minutes up a steep hill. What I find interesting is that it takes me about 29 minutes to run around the loop in one direction, but i am nearly 1.5 minutes faster in the other direction, despite normally needing to walk a little more in that faster direction! I wondered if anyone else ever found that they were faster in a certain direction around a route and whether it is linked to my lack of strength or fitness, or more linked to the profile of the route?
cheers
Stuart
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Comments
Of course, if you hit a big uphill towards the end of the run you'll be more fatigued and find it harder.
It's good you go both directions, keep going and it will get easier!
It could also be that you have one leg longer than the other (like a haggis) and therefore you're much better at running in one direction