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Comments: Highlight of race was at mile 4 - where I was 35 seconds up on my 7 minute mile schedule. After that it started to hurt, and runners kept coming past me, rather than me overtaking them. I hung in until mile 8 when the pace really started to hurt and I slowed. Trevor caught me at mile 9, and I picked up the pace to stay with him - but boy did that hurt - I had lost him again 2 miles later, and despite a dig up the hill I couldn't close the gap. Last three miles were all about survival as the pain went to another level... What would you do differently?: Run shorter races! Thus is a half marathon PB fro me though - which feels pretty good. Heart rate shows I couldn't really have pushed any harder!  Post race
Warm down: Chat, chat, chat. What limited your ability to perform faster: The distance - think I need to stick to the shorter stuff. Last updated: 2005-03-20 12:00 AM
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 2005-03-20 5:37 PM |
New user 12 stirling |  Subject: Alloa Half Marathon |
| 2005-03-21 3:52 AM in reply to: #132034 |
Veteran 257  Stirling, Scotland | Subject: RE: Alloa Half Marathon Well done Andy. Fantastic time. Your heart rate to split times make fascinating reading. You must have been up at your max at the end. |
| 2005-03-21 7:55 AM in reply to: #132178 |
| New user 12 stirling | Subject: RE: Alloa Half Marathon OK - I've looked back, and this wasn't a PB for me after all :-( Looking back at old results, I've done this race twice before, in 1998 I managed 1.36.42, on what must have been my second ever half marathon, but in 1999 I clocked 1.31.35. I don't think I've done much distance running over the last three or four years, and I think that showed yesterday! I just don't get the time to train these days... The encouraging thing yesterday was that I found that I can push myself right at the limit of my lactate threshold for a long time - although it is hurting today (understatement). My max (as I found out at one of John's wednesday night hill rep sessions) is 206bpm when running, and my min is 37bpm (as I found out when recovering from surgery recently...). Which means that I ran the race yesterday at an average of 87% of max. So I have now _definately_ decided to stick to Sprint distance race this year - which means Ersking on 8th May, then Midlothian on 29th May as my first two targets. Think I should try and get some bike miles in now. What races are you planning next Dave? |
| 2005-03-21 8:28 AM in reply to: #132034 |
Veteran 257 Stirling, Scotland | Subject: RE: Alloa Half Marathon The results have been posted at http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/site/documents/sport/alloahalfmarathon2... My next races are going to be the Stirling Aquathon and then the Stirling Triathlon, I don't get about much. I'm very tempted to enter the Firth of Forth triathlon, swimming under the Forth railway bridge seems strangely appealing. I'll need to see about getting/hiring/borrowing a wet suit, but it's not till August. |
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