11-04-2015, 10:00 AM
Hi TheEd
Had a decent run out today but the route was woefully short like the last race as my finishing time of 34:03 will attest
They adjusted the start and finish area do do road works in the area and no one thought to make up lost distance. Lots of 'PBs' on the day though!
I felt strong in the first 5km but after the climb between 6 & 7km, I got pysched out a bit. I was reeling the pace back in towards the end and would have put down a sub 3:30/km final split. Here are my watch splits:
3:26
3:27
3:35
3:32
3:38 (17:38 5km)
3:23
3:38
3:35 (28:15 8km)
3:33
2:16 (650m; 3:29/km)
Total = 34:03 @ 3:32/km (last race was 3:34/km)
Interestingly, maintaining 3:29/km for that last short split would have given a '10km' split of 35:16 for a perfectly even paced effort. I add a 100m buffer to my watch so extrapolates to a 35:36 which means I'm in PB form. It will fall next week. I need to wrap my head around the idea of pushing on from 7km. This was a route that allowed that but I went into maintenance mode.
Anyway, it's progress, getting faster with each run. My next race is a 15km race on the 3rd May. Unfortunately the last available fast 10km in May is the following weekend on the 10th, where I set my PB. Last year I did them both and ran 55:40 for the 15km and 35:46 for the 10km the following week. Do you think it's feasible to do that again this year?
Have a great weekend.
Cheers
Had a decent run out today but the route was woefully short like the last race as my finishing time of 34:03 will attest
They adjusted the start and finish area do do road works in the area and no one thought to make up lost distance. Lots of 'PBs' on the day though!I felt strong in the first 5km but after the climb between 6 & 7km, I got pysched out a bit. I was reeling the pace back in towards the end and would have put down a sub 3:30/km final split. Here are my watch splits:
3:26
3:27
3:35
3:32
3:38 (17:38 5km)
3:23
3:38
3:35 (28:15 8km)
3:33
2:16 (650m; 3:29/km)
Total = 34:03 @ 3:32/km (last race was 3:34/km)
Interestingly, maintaining 3:29/km for that last short split would have given a '10km' split of 35:16 for a perfectly even paced effort. I add a 100m buffer to my watch so extrapolates to a 35:36 which means I'm in PB form. It will fall next week. I need to wrap my head around the idea of pushing on from 7km. This was a route that allowed that but I went into maintenance mode.
Anyway, it's progress, getting faster with each run. My next race is a 15km race on the 3rd May. Unfortunately the last available fast 10km in May is the following weekend on the 10th, where I set my PB. Last year I did them both and ran 55:40 for the 15km and 35:46 for the 10km the following week. Do you think it's feasible to do that again this year?
Have a great weekend.
Cheers