I recently decided that I was going to start going on morning runs no matter if I feel like it or not. The reason for this was that for whatever reason, I feel more motivated to do these runs surprisingly on an empty stomach than I do if I have a belly full of breakfast. It doesn't make any sense to me either but since I am still carrying some extra weight, I would imagine it has a lot to do with the fact that my body has plenty of extra "fuel" for the activity.
That pace is pathetic because on this particular morning I was really struggling to run at all and at the end of it I also forgot my Strava was still running so it sat on my table for a while after I got back home. Strava tries to correct these mistakes but doesn't always get it right because how could it possibly? I can do a straight-up walk that is faster than 10 minutes per km, so I know that isn't correct. The distance and time is though and the entire idea in my morning activity was to get my heart rate up for an hour or so to begin my day.
The first and the last km of this set are wildly inaccurate. I might be capable of a 4 minute km if i was only doing one. My true pace is represented by kms 2-5. In Km 5 i was mostly cooling down and doing almost entirely walking. The last part, the 300 meters, was where the phone was sitting on a table and I simply forgot it was running.
So I am not using this readout to properly track how fast I am going, but only as a record of the fact that I did actual activity for a prolonged period of time.
Some days when I wake up I REALLY don't want to do this but I force myself out the door in the morning and just get it done. I always feel good about it after the fact so why not?