29-07-2013, 03:37 PM
Hi The Ed,
Had a really good race yesterday, ended up with 37:08 for the 6 mile course (3:51/k). I somehow failed to start my watch at the line, but realized a couple hundred meters down the road and splits from there were 3:50,3:56,3:50,3:53,3:55,3:51,3:55,3:48,3:40, and 0:42 for the last 0.2k.
It was a fast field, so was tough to not try to go with it, but I stuck to my plan of ~3:55 until near the end. Finished feeling like I could have given more, which feels a lot better than blowing up. But the mental part of this - knowing how close to my threshold I can maintain - is something to work on.
Long term goal is to finish this race in the Top 100 males next year. This year that would have taken 3:39/k. Nothing scheduled short term, except maybe a 10k in November. Want to keep getting faster though...
Had a really good race yesterday, ended up with 37:08 for the 6 mile course (3:51/k). I somehow failed to start my watch at the line, but realized a couple hundred meters down the road and splits from there were 3:50,3:56,3:50,3:53,3:55,3:51,3:55,3:48,3:40, and 0:42 for the last 0.2k.
It was a fast field, so was tough to not try to go with it, but I stuck to my plan of ~3:55 until near the end. Finished feeling like I could have given more, which feels a lot better than blowing up. But the mental part of this - knowing how close to my threshold I can maintain - is something to work on.
Long term goal is to finish this race in the Top 100 males next year. This year that would have taken 3:39/k. Nothing scheduled short term, except maybe a 10k in November. Want to keep getting faster though...