09-08-2015, 01:59 PM
Had a so-so run yesterday, got a serious case of runner's amnesia about the difficulty of the course Will definitely have to find a flatter route!
I dwaddled a bit in the 2nd km not sure why the split was so slow and I could finish faster. It's a bit tricky because on the way down there were so many runners coming up and they took up the whole road so was avoiding people.
Final time was 17:36, splits were:
3:17
3:32
3:55 (nett gain in elevation is 41 metres!)
3:46
3:06
I was a bit disappointed to not have managed to go through 2km in 6:40, should have gone sub 17:30 at least. Legs still feel heavy at pace though, like I'm lacking zip, and I've narrowed it down to my quads. Breathing didn't feel any harder than it should for a hard 5km but my quads feel like I'm lugging lead weights when I hit sub 3:30/km pace but oddly not at really fast paces like for doing the 400s or that 3:00-3:10/km range. Can't understand the feeling, never experienced that, cardio has always been the limiter for me and even when I was slower, running 39min for a 10km, doing 400s at 75s was never difficult. Even now in training I'm finding the longer stuff a lot easier and enjoyable, like cruising at a steady pace, 10km pace + 1min and even that feels effortless. But 5km and 10km pace is not and it's all in the quads. Just an observation, I hope I'm not overanalysing things.
Where do we proceed to from here. I had entered a 15km for next Saturday, but wasn't anticipating the changes in the last two weeks so I'm a bit off-kilter with the program at the moment. I can defer it or just look to do it as just a general run, what do you think?
I haven't entered any races after that, can usually enter on the day anyway, mostly pre-enter to get a free race tee . I'm thinking of delaying my half marathon, even though I seem to be running better at distances above 10km in the past 12 months or so, but just not sure if I'm mentally ready for a half marathon but that's still 6 weeks away.
Oh, and I'm relocating work to Pretoria from September, to TUKS, so that should make training a lot easier in terms of time management. Currently spend 90 minutes commuting each way but will have a modest 14.5km to cover to TUKS, and as far as I know, I should be able to access the sports facilities there, including their tartan track
Hope you've had a great weekend
Cheers
I dwaddled a bit in the 2nd km not sure why the split was so slow and I could finish faster. It's a bit tricky because on the way down there were so many runners coming up and they took up the whole road so was avoiding people.
Final time was 17:36, splits were:
3:17
3:32
3:55 (nett gain in elevation is 41 metres!)
3:46
3:06
I was a bit disappointed to not have managed to go through 2km in 6:40, should have gone sub 17:30 at least. Legs still feel heavy at pace though, like I'm lacking zip, and I've narrowed it down to my quads. Breathing didn't feel any harder than it should for a hard 5km but my quads feel like I'm lugging lead weights when I hit sub 3:30/km pace but oddly not at really fast paces like for doing the 400s or that 3:00-3:10/km range. Can't understand the feeling, never experienced that, cardio has always been the limiter for me and even when I was slower, running 39min for a 10km, doing 400s at 75s was never difficult. Even now in training I'm finding the longer stuff a lot easier and enjoyable, like cruising at a steady pace, 10km pace + 1min and even that feels effortless. But 5km and 10km pace is not and it's all in the quads. Just an observation, I hope I'm not overanalysing things.
Where do we proceed to from here. I had entered a 15km for next Saturday, but wasn't anticipating the changes in the last two weeks so I'm a bit off-kilter with the program at the moment. I can defer it or just look to do it as just a general run, what do you think?
I haven't entered any races after that, can usually enter on the day anyway, mostly pre-enter to get a free race tee . I'm thinking of delaying my half marathon, even though I seem to be running better at distances above 10km in the past 12 months or so, but just not sure if I'm mentally ready for a half marathon but that's still 6 weeks away.
Oh, and I'm relocating work to Pretoria from September, to TUKS, so that should make training a lot easier in terms of time management. Currently spend 90 minutes commuting each way but will have a modest 14.5km to cover to TUKS, and as far as I know, I should be able to access the sports facilities there, including their tartan track
Hope you've had a great weekend
Cheers