After Monday's superb 20k run, went out today on a subset of the same trails. But, clearly I had some residual muscle tiredness. I ran for 55 minutes, roughly 5.5 miles, and just felt heavy and slow. I wasn't hurting, but nowhere near the spring, lightness, and effortlessness of Monday's run. Regardless, I was happy to get out there.
A slight note on distances. My new Tech4o Traileader 1 watch seems to be fairly accurate, maybe overstating the distances a bit, whereas the iPhone is crap due to the heavy tree cover - if it even works. Today is a good example. My watch said 5.9 miles, iPhone said 4.23. Along the way I was comparing my watch to the trail signs which state distances. It was 0.1 miles over the first one at I think the 1.3mi mark. The other day when I checked it, it was only 0.1 over after 3 something miles. In general the watch seems fairly close, at most 10% over, probably more like about 5%. I expect, since it bases it on stride, that it will vary based on how hilly a particular run/trail is, etc. I intend to go calibrate it, but I'm not sure where yet, since doing so on a track will make it accurate for the street/track, but probably not quite as right for trails.