27-05-2012, 09:50 AM
Good Morning!
Just came back from the race. First, the good news, I didn't feel any kind of pain in the tibia nor anything else. I did my investigations and for the symptoms, I think that may have been shin splints. But today no trace about it, I think that the combination of running in the mill plus wearing my neutral racing flat shoes may cause this, since it's not the first time that I had this feeling, despite not being usual. But either in the track or the road It has never been an issue, neither in the mill with my over-pronation control Asics trainers... Will keep an eye on this.
As for the race itself, here come the bad news, I didn't perform very well, I ran it in 37:06 according to my Garmin, awaiting official results (EDITED: 37:05). Weather was 21-22 úC very sunny with no clouds, even at 8:30AM, I guess the arrival of the summer is definitely here. I'm pretty sure that this has had quite of an impact on performance because I could feel it from the very start. I tried to put cruise pace of 3:36-3:37 but when in the 5th Km I felt already near my limits and I couldn't help it but starting to lose time dramatically on the second part. Well... comparing it to this last recent races this year where the weather has been more tolerable with lower temperature and clouds or even a little bit of refreshing rain I think that today's result is more or less consistent. But I think that also shows that I'm having a hard time improving my fitness.
Also, today I was a little bit off my low weight, I'm at 63.5 kg right now and last races I have been in the middle 62's. Thursday and Friday not running on the week's race sure make me be more rested by the date (this morning lowest HR fine, between 47-50) but I also get bored at home and have a hard time controlling my cravings and I end eating more, with little calorie expenditure...
This is today's activity on Garmin:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/182407912
Well, at least I ran this 3 last races faster than previous year, but just slightly faster. Look:
![[Image: seguimentlliga1rq201220.png]](http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/259/seguimentlliga1rq201220.png)
Ok, so two weeks to keep training and then another 10K on Sunday and... wait, this is new: my club has insisted me in participing in the 1000m on the track that they organize every year. I was a little bit reluctant because I have the 10K the day after but it's for free, it's held by my club and also my mates are quite revved up by it, so couldn't say no :laugh: I guess it will be fun, by the way, but as it is my first 1000m I don't have a lot of expectations on it and I'm focused on the 10K training as always.
So.. how should I proceed this two weeks? 1st week with the long run and 5x2000 and then... 2nd week? or skip to the 3rd week as I have done this week? Notice that with the recent events of doing as a pacemaker twice on Sundays I've skipped two long runs and I'm starting to miss it, I think they work pretty well with me.
Just came back from the race. First, the good news, I didn't feel any kind of pain in the tibia nor anything else. I did my investigations and for the symptoms, I think that may have been shin splints. But today no trace about it, I think that the combination of running in the mill plus wearing my neutral racing flat shoes may cause this, since it's not the first time that I had this feeling, despite not being usual. But either in the track or the road It has never been an issue, neither in the mill with my over-pronation control Asics trainers... Will keep an eye on this.
As for the race itself, here come the bad news, I didn't perform very well, I ran it in 37:06 according to my Garmin, awaiting official results (EDITED: 37:05). Weather was 21-22 úC very sunny with no clouds, even at 8:30AM, I guess the arrival of the summer is definitely here. I'm pretty sure that this has had quite of an impact on performance because I could feel it from the very start. I tried to put cruise pace of 3:36-3:37 but when in the 5th Km I felt already near my limits and I couldn't help it but starting to lose time dramatically on the second part. Well... comparing it to this last recent races this year where the weather has been more tolerable with lower temperature and clouds or even a little bit of refreshing rain I think that today's result is more or less consistent. But I think that also shows that I'm having a hard time improving my fitness.
Also, today I was a little bit off my low weight, I'm at 63.5 kg right now and last races I have been in the middle 62's. Thursday and Friday not running on the week's race sure make me be more rested by the date (this morning lowest HR fine, between 47-50) but I also get bored at home and have a hard time controlling my cravings and I end eating more, with little calorie expenditure...
This is today's activity on Garmin:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/182407912
Well, at least I ran this 3 last races faster than previous year, but just slightly faster. Look:
![[Image: seguimentlliga1rq201220.png]](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/84/seguimentlliga1rq201220.png/)
Ok, so two weeks to keep training and then another 10K on Sunday and... wait, this is new: my club has insisted me in participing in the 1000m on the track that they organize every year. I was a little bit reluctant because I have the 10K the day after but it's for free, it's held by my club and also my mates are quite revved up by it, so couldn't say no :laugh: I guess it will be fun, by the way, but as it is my first 1000m I don't have a lot of expectations on it and I'm focused on the 10K training as always.
So.. how should I proceed this two weeks? 1st week with the long run and 5x2000 and then... 2nd week? or skip to the 3rd week as I have done this week? Notice that with the recent events of doing as a pacemaker twice on Sundays I've skipped two long runs and I'm starting to miss it, I think they work pretty well with me.