Running

Will push hard on my Wednesday 5k. (Current recent best[1] is a 27:56 at 155 avg / 168 max HR). Will aim for a HR avg of 170bpm and max of 180bpm and see if I can creep in around 26:00 which, with a BMI of 31, would be amazing.

20kg overweight, BMI of 31.

Somehow I just did a 5k in 25:19 (only about a minute off my parkrun record back when I was doing a lot more running and was 10kg lighter)

HR was 165 avg and 179 max but it takes ~90s for my HR to get up to speed, it was a fairly steady effort and the last 3 minutes averaged 172bpm, so I pushed about as hard as I wanted to.

Very happy with that. Now I can do a couple of really easy runs and then give blood at the weekend knowing that I can take it easy next week too.

Really got me wondering what I'll be able to do if/when I do lose the excess 20kg.