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Sunday Mar 19, 2017 #
8 AM
Running warm up/down 36:57 6.14 km (6:01 / km) +5m 5:59 / km
ahr:142 max:159 shoes: Adidas Supernova Glide
Long slow jog from Reading station to the race village to try and get rid of some of the lactic acid from the day before.
Running race 1:33:13 21.2 km (4:24 / km) +99m 4:18 / km
ahr:166 max:177 shoes: Adidas Supernova Glide
Reading Half Marathon.
Ah, anybody wanting to donate:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Peter-Suba
816th out of 9720 finishers. (top 10% is OK for me)
127th in my category.
The primary objective is achieved - I wanted to run two halfs back to back with sub 4:30 pace as a prep for what I hope to do in one go in just over a month.
It was also a good training for me on road races, as I have never done one of these with so many people, so the whole experience of starting zones, masses of people, fighting over road space, overtaking those ambitiously starting in fast zones, being overtaken by those who have more in them, taking the drinks from the stations rather than taking it with me etc. etc. all good preparation. Very very different from yesterday.
I was ambitiously starting out going with the 1:30 guy, although I suspected it would be too fast for me, but it wasn't unrealistic and it went well initially, though I started to worry about my HR after the first hill as it hovered around 170 which is not sustainable in a marathon (it would be OK for a half). I felt my legs on that incline though from yesterday and that was a warning sign which I hoped would not come into it... but knew it could. Stuck with him in fact at places I went ahead to get a bit more breathing space around me as there seemed to be a lot of people congregating right around the pacemaker so it seemed safer a bit further ahead.
Fantastic support from various groups around the course, particularly pumped by the drumming band underneath the passage we turned back 180 at the Oracle. It really gave energy!
However, at around the 13km mark we hit the second hill and this is where my thighs just called it a day as a result of the accumulated effort over 2 days. I struggled with them from this point, although I hang on just about with the 1:30 pacemaker for the next few KMs but it took a lot more effort now than before. I finally started to suffer at the 10 mile mark and as the pacemaker called it quits here as well, and I felt my legs just not cooperating any more, it became a survival effort and I consciously gave up my 1:30 wish and started to concentrate on not losing the target of finishing with a faster time than yesterday.
Lots of support from the people around reading my name from the CRUK shirt helped, although if I had more energy I surely would have laughed when at this point someone shouted the encouragement "Well done Peter, looking strong" as I was fighting my demons telling me to stop running and start to walk a little bit!
In the end, this was a good time and yet another proof that my lucky number is 13...
Now on to recovery!
Ah, anybody wanting to donate:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Peter-Suba
816th out of 9720 finishers. (top 10% is OK for me)
127th in my category.
The primary objective is achieved - I wanted to run two halfs back to back with sub 4:30 pace as a prep for what I hope to do in one go in just over a month.
It was also a good training for me on road races, as I have never done one of these with so many people, so the whole experience of starting zones, masses of people, fighting over road space, overtaking those ambitiously starting in fast zones, being overtaken by those who have more in them, taking the drinks from the stations rather than taking it with me etc. etc. all good preparation. Very very different from yesterday.
I was ambitiously starting out going with the 1:30 guy, although I suspected it would be too fast for me, but it wasn't unrealistic and it went well initially, though I started to worry about my HR after the first hill as it hovered around 170 which is not sustainable in a marathon (it would be OK for a half). I felt my legs on that incline though from yesterday and that was a warning sign which I hoped would not come into it... but knew it could. Stuck with him in fact at places I went ahead to get a bit more breathing space around me as there seemed to be a lot of people congregating right around the pacemaker so it seemed safer a bit further ahead.
Fantastic support from various groups around the course, particularly pumped by the drumming band underneath the passage we turned back 180 at the Oracle. It really gave energy!
However, at around the 13km mark we hit the second hill and this is where my thighs just called it a day as a result of the accumulated effort over 2 days. I struggled with them from this point, although I hang on just about with the 1:30 pacemaker for the next few KMs but it took a lot more effort now than before. I finally started to suffer at the 10 mile mark and as the pacemaker called it quits here as well, and I felt my legs just not cooperating any more, it became a survival effort and I consciously gave up my 1:30 wish and started to concentrate on not losing the target of finishing with a faster time than yesterday.
Lots of support from the people around reading my name from the CRUK shirt helped, although if I had more energy I surely would have laughed when at this point someone shouted the encouragement "Well done Peter, looking strong" as I was fighting my demons telling me to stop running and start to walk a little bit!
In the end, this was a good time and yet another proof that my lucky number is 13...
Now on to recovery!
Running 1:33:13 21.2 km (4:24 / km) +99m 4:18 / km
ahr:166 max:177
6 PM
Note
Oooh, blisters, yay.
Not that surprising but still, Injinji socks and yet...
Trying out an advice I saw somewhere about threading a piece of well, thread through and leaving it in overnight to make it gentler and quicker to heal. Let's see if it works.
Not that surprising but still, Injinji socks and yet...
Trying out an advice I saw somewhere about threading a piece of well, thread through and leaving it in overnight to make it gentler and quicker to heal. Let's see if it works.