18-06-2017, 03:21 PM
Hi Ed,
I raced today. Not sure where to start... anyway, yesterday rained like crazy, so this morning the organizers decided to close a part of the course and redirect us. Official loop of the previous course was 1114m, but with the redirect we don't know the new distance, I estimate around 1145m, so 5 laps equals 5.73km(I'll try a more exact measurement the following days with my bike).
I finished with a time of 23m:01s, that's a pace of 4m:01s/km with 181bpm avg HR. Overall satisfied, but not ecstatic because I couldn't rely on the original distance to pace myself.
I have some questions below regarding next race & cycles:
Next race is on 26august and it's a 24km trail race with 1400m elevation. Because of the distance I was thinking to increase the long runs for next cycles up to 2h:30m(last year I finished the race in 3h:16min 14'th place). I was also thinking to increase the 30min easy runs to 45mins, and the 1hr easy runs up to 1hr:15-30mins. What do you think\suggest?
Regarding pace for quality sessions, do you think I should adjust for the 2k and 1k sessions based on the result today?
I raced today. Not sure where to start... anyway, yesterday rained like crazy, so this morning the organizers decided to close a part of the course and redirect us. Official loop of the previous course was 1114m, but with the redirect we don't know the new distance, I estimate around 1145m, so 5 laps equals 5.73km(I'll try a more exact measurement the following days with my bike).
I finished with a time of 23m:01s, that's a pace of 4m:01s/km with 181bpm avg HR. Overall satisfied, but not ecstatic because I couldn't rely on the original distance to pace myself.
I have some questions below regarding next race & cycles:
Next race is on 26august and it's a 24km trail race with 1400m elevation. Because of the distance I was thinking to increase the long runs for next cycles up to 2h:30m(last year I finished the race in 3h:16min 14'th place). I was also thinking to increase the 30min easy runs to 45mins, and the 1hr easy runs up to 1hr:15-30mins. What do you think\suggest?
Regarding pace for quality sessions, do you think I should adjust for the 2k and 1k sessions based on the result today?