Training Log Archive: markg

The family and I had come up to Toowoomba for a weekend with the in-laws and I discovered that the Toowoomba Marathon was on today including a 10km race. Had planned do some training this weekend anyway so decided the 10km would fit pretty well. After jogging from my in-laws to USQ for the race start, I was feeling pretty good and probably started a little too quickly as a result. Made up a few places in the first 1.5km and was running alongside another guy. We were slowly reeling in a kid in front and I reckon running in the top 10. Unfortunately, just before 3km we turned into a reasonably strong headwind and headed up a short rise and despite trying to tuck in and get out of the wind it really drained me. It was about then that the usual thought of 'geez, I hate running races' popped into my head and a few seconds later I was off the back of a little group that had formed with some guys who'd come up from behind. I went through 4km in 15min. I slowly dropped away from the group and eventually got passed by another young guy. 5-8km was predominantly up hill and into a headwind and was a bit of a struggle; went through 7km in 26min. The headwind got really vicious just before a little turnaround at about 8.8km but then we had a quick run with a tailwind and then no wind before the finish.

Time isn't too precise but I'm pretty sure I got in just under 39min which I'm pleased with. About 1min quicker than my last 10km race in 2007. Probably has a lot to do with my disciplined taper this week ;) I reckon some good training would quickly knock it down a couple of minutes.

C • well done with that taper..... 1

Checked the official results and unfortunately was 30s slower than I thought but that's still a PB.