To race is but a dream...

[shadydaz]

Wow! Congrats on that Daz, not bad to come in a minute and a half quicker than expected in a 5k race! Great time.

Happy New Year!

cheers

Thanks Mark. Conditions were right for me on the day. Have had an easy running week of base mileage and allowed a taper period into race so legs were fresh. The adrenaline of a race environment is worth 5% gain on training performance imo and I’m getting experienced enough to know relatively quickly into a hard session/race what is possible just by gauging my perceived effort rather than watching numbers on my wrist. Then it’s just mind over matter (the feeling of not being able to breathe, the pain, the urge to quit etc ?) and then using the lap pace on the wrist second half so as not to let myself slip ?