A new PR and a World record run!!!

4 miles on the schedule today....ended with 5!

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If you read yesterday's post, you will know that I ran while on vacation.  Some of the runs were on a Cruise Ship as it was moving.  I knew the GPS would not work properly but thought it would be a cool experiment to see how it worked.  Here's a picture of what I saw while running.  I decided to run on this deck since it was all the way around the boat - about 2.5 times around for a mile.  If I ran on the actually running track they had, it would have been 7 times around(for 1 mile) with a larger crowd so this worked out much better.  The only issue was I had to run around the wind walls(walls used to keep the wind down on the deck)

My track on the ship!

I even had lights if it was dark(not that I ran much this early)
I also had to watch out for water so I didn't slip.

More importantly, check out the results.

What is interesting is that I ran around the ships deck on level 5 which is basically all the way around the boat.  I could not tell you how many times I ran around it but it's interesting to see that the GPS showed this as a straight line.

The other interesting thing is the distance.  Check it out - I ran 23 miles in just over an hour.  A new world record run!!! Haha!  And look at that best pace of 1:34 min/mile!  Ok, I guess the ship moving helped me.  Since I knew it was all messed up, I basically ran for time so I probably did around 7 miles in actuality.

Here's a look at the timing chart and elevation.  It kind of looks like I'm doing intervals.  In a sense, I was.  When running towards the front of the ship, I was running against a strong wind.  When I was running toward the back of the ship, I was running more with the wind so it helped speed me up.  In addition, as I was running to the back, the ship was moving in the opposite direction which showed me going fast.  Actually I was fairly level overall though.

Plus, look at the elevation.  The ship is completely flat, of course, however, with the movement from the waves on the ocean, there was a slight elevation gain and loss.  The weather was great so the waves were not crazy but I guess the boat moves more than you can actually feel.

Finally, here's the splits again I had for the mileage for a world record run.

I guess I should have done three more miles to get in an actual marathon distance world record.

Anyway, I thought this was a very interesting experiment in the use of a GPS while running on a moving ship.

Have a great day and....Keep Running!!!!