Run 1,044: Scaled back to no effect

Brunette River, pre-run: Calm, and not that humid. Well. It’s not just a deep subject. My plan today was to scale back my effort because my runs are consistently being declared as Overreaching, even though I’m just doing what my watch tell me to do (more or less). I headed out relatively early, at 9:30 a.m., to beat the heat, and tracked my 1.5 km walk to the river trail. The watch declared this as Unproductive. It’s literally a 15-minute walk. I harumped to myself, then decided to forgo the planned 5K in lieu of a gentler 2.5K. But the 2.5K was declared Overreaching like most of my post-surgery exercise. Well. The other stats were also not great. Just before the 1K mark the performance rating popped up: -3. Not good! My BPM was higher despite today’s run being shorter, cooler and after two days of not-running: 152. I was also two seconds slower on average at 6:26/km, though that was in part due to me trying to “run gently”. I also had a few issues with phlegm, which I now associate…