14-03-2013, 10:19 PM
A few more easy runs down, and a rest day scheduled for tomorrow - all feeling very positive and very easy at the moment.
I guess my only questions prior to the Half Marathon in 10 days time will be as follows:
1) What pace should I attempt the 3 x mile session next Tuesday? Is this supposed to be at race pace (6:51/mile), or slightly easier?
2) What is the best way to go for the race? I know alot earlier in the thread I shared my previous HM KM splits and we agreed that I went off far too quickly - which at Hastings is a big no-no, as the profile of the course is as follows:
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One of the major plus points of the race is that there is a 1:30 pacemaker who runs the course. I don't know what you think, but I was thinking of going with the pacemaker for as long as possible up the hills at the start, and to try and pick up if I have anything left at 8 miles with the aim to put a gap between the pacemaker and myself before the flat final 3 miles... If I do this, one thing that would help me with judging the pace up the hills is a heartrate to be trying not to go above - I know from the past 5 months that my heart rate can get up to 206 BPM - I'd be guessing there must be a % of this that would push me into anaerobic rather than aerobic exercise, and that I'd want to stay in the latter?
I'm going to thank you in advance for all of your help for my 6th attempt at this race - I have never gone into a race feeling so well prepared. To use a metaphor, I think I'm going into this race with a full set of tools, whereas in previous years I may have had a toolbelt and a spanner or two, but nothing more! I couldn't have done it on my own, so thank you :notworthy:
I guess my only questions prior to the Half Marathon in 10 days time will be as follows:
1) What pace should I attempt the 3 x mile session next Tuesday? Is this supposed to be at race pace (6:51/mile), or slightly easier?
2) What is the best way to go for the race? I know alot earlier in the thread I shared my previous HM KM splits and we agreed that I went off far too quickly - which at Hastings is a big no-no, as the profile of the course is as follows:
One of the major plus points of the race is that there is a 1:30 pacemaker who runs the course. I don't know what you think, but I was thinking of going with the pacemaker for as long as possible up the hills at the start, and to try and pick up if I have anything left at 8 miles with the aim to put a gap between the pacemaker and myself before the flat final 3 miles... If I do this, one thing that would help me with judging the pace up the hills is a heartrate to be trying not to go above - I know from the past 5 months that my heart rate can get up to 206 BPM - I'd be guessing there must be a % of this that would push me into anaerobic rather than aerobic exercise, and that I'd want to stay in the latter?
I'm going to thank you in advance for all of your help for my 6th attempt at this race - I have never gone into a race feeling so well prepared. To use a metaphor, I think I'm going into this race with a full set of tools, whereas in previous years I may have had a toolbelt and a spanner or two, but nothing more! I couldn't have done it on my own, so thank you :notworthy: