07-05-2012, 04:14 PM
Hi TheEd,
I hope you had a good weekend. It was beautiful here, perfect weather for the Vancouver Marathon. Man those guys are fast
I did the 8k loop as planned. I decided to run the course of the race I have planned at the end of May so that I had an idea of what I was up against. I'm glad I did; it was really hilly, not like anything I've trained on to date.
Overall: 35:21
LAP TIME AVG. HR
1 3:58 157
2 4:24 162
3 4:15 166
4 4:27 168
5 4:40 167
6 4:24 165
7 4:46 168
8 4:27 169
I did a good warm up with some strides and that helped a lot. I felt pretty good throughout the run as a whole but was really hurting on the hills. I tried to calm my breathing down on the downhills rather than trying to make up time. KM 1, 2, 5 and 7 were the hardest hill sections. They sure do take a lot out of me, a bit of an eye opener.
Anyway, I'll be running this course again as the race for the end of this next upcoming cycle. I'm not overly concerned about the results for it. While I'd like to improve on my time I understand it is just a stepping stone to long term improvement on the real purpose which is the 10k.
I am planning on getting back on the proper schedule and will do the 5x2k on Thursday as you had suggested. If you have pacing suggestions for that sessions it would be greatly appreciated. Also, do you normally run that on tartan as well?
Thanks,
KK
I hope you had a good weekend. It was beautiful here, perfect weather for the Vancouver Marathon. Man those guys are fast
I did the 8k loop as planned. I decided to run the course of the race I have planned at the end of May so that I had an idea of what I was up against. I'm glad I did; it was really hilly, not like anything I've trained on to date.
Overall: 35:21
LAP TIME AVG. HR
1 3:58 157
2 4:24 162
3 4:15 166
4 4:27 168
5 4:40 167
6 4:24 165
7 4:46 168
8 4:27 169
I did a good warm up with some strides and that helped a lot. I felt pretty good throughout the run as a whole but was really hurting on the hills. I tried to calm my breathing down on the downhills rather than trying to make up time. KM 1, 2, 5 and 7 were the hardest hill sections. They sure do take a lot out of me, a bit of an eye opener.
Anyway, I'll be running this course again as the race for the end of this next upcoming cycle. I'm not overly concerned about the results for it. While I'd like to improve on my time I understand it is just a stepping stone to long term improvement on the real purpose which is the 10k.
I am planning on getting back on the proper schedule and will do the 5x2k on Thursday as you had suggested. If you have pacing suggestions for that sessions it would be greatly appreciated. Also, do you normally run that on tartan as well?
Thanks,
KK