{"id":10028,"date":"2026-11-04T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2026-11-04T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:05:37","slug":"running-naked-well-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/running-naked-well-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Naked (Well, Almost)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">North Downs Ridge 50k Training Block - Week 2\/17<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday's training plan had a 7km run pencilled in, which worked out rather nicely with the planned Worthing Striders club session. The session was a <em>naked 5K<\/em> - not quite what it sounds like, thankfully, but a run without any technology to keep track of pace or distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea was to predict your 5K finishing time beforehand, then head out and see how accurately you could judge your own pace without looking at a watch or phone. I settled on a predicted time of <strong>30 minutes 50 seconds<\/strong>, which seemed about right and fitted quite neatly with the suggested pace for my planned 7km easy run. I was fairly confident I'd nail it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was wrong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1024x477.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1024x477.png 1024w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-766x357.png 766w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1536x716.png 1536w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-2048x954.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running alongside club mates made this a little easier, and the conversation certainly helped take my mind off the effort. It's funny how running and chatting with other people can make a faster pace feel considerably more comfortable. I did actually time the 5km afterwards, and the result was <strong>29:44<\/strong> - a full 66 seconds quicker than my prediction. So much for my ability to judge pace!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103_193841-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club session was sandwiched between an easy-paced jog to and from the meeting point, so what was originally supposed to be a 7km run ended up being almost <strong>10km<\/strong> in total. A nice little bonus in terms of mileage, and a good way to combine the planned easy running with something a bit different. There were no problems during the session, although I'm still keeping an eye on the left foot. 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The session was a naked 5K - not quite what it sounds like, thankfully, but a run without any technology to keep track of pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1603,1604,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-running","category-journal","category-blog"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}