Training Log Archive: Psuba

Event: SO - Brighton City Race (night mass-start event - 6pm)
 

Parkrun aiming at 4:30 tempo - not too slow but not 100% given the planned races over the next 2 days, so decided to get back to the tempo I targeted/ran early in the year for my HM/M races. Did that as I was deciding it was time to assess if I am starting to get back in shape now.

HR isn't coming back down as quickly as I would like after a run even when I am jogging. Not fit yet? Lack of sleep?

To start

Brighton City Race night event, course 2 (Mens Vets).

Good fun mass start as usual.

Varied performance, in a way surprised to come 2nd.

Quite a few suboptimal route choices but from the splits it looks like others made the same mistake or similar in some cases.

The ones that counted really were the split going up from the seaside to the hill where I missed the alley I wanted to use and then running into a dead end, and a momentary confusion/madness just before the butterfly. I was running ahead/together with Kevin at that point but I lost map contact and stopped to figure out where I was. Probably a bad decision to not trust him/them at that point in the race having the same control and follow him instead of stopping. Lack of experience in head to head racing I am afraid. So as I stopped to relocate it took me about 40s just in that instance - I lost by 30s in the end. That said, like I mentioned, several other suboptimal route choices, some deliberate to make navigation / running surface more dependable.
Not very strong running the uphill sections, kept losing time in those, but quite happy with my speed on level/downhill sections and speed of decision making/navigation in general.

Got a couple of blisters on both of my small toes - been a while since I used these pair of X-Talons, clearly not a good combination with the Inov-8 socks I had given how tight they are.

Lanes supersprint.

Well this was supposed to be fun, but a.) I was told the controls were SIAir enabled and they weren't, so I have spent quite a few seconds in the first 3 controls, going back after not hearing the beep and getting the dibber from my wrist to dib. Also, quite a few drunken people in the lanes, one large chap enjoyed actively blocking me in one of the lanes, in the end I had to physically move him to the side... He thought it was funny. Lots of people still there so some innocent walkers-by I had to walk behind for a while with no chance of overtaking. Not angry with the latter, upset with the drunken guy deliberately blocking me though.

I think I ended up 3rd anyway.

Just turning the legs over after the long drive