Not really run focused this year, but my last 10k was 40:47 in the rain, which mcmillan says is within 54 seconds of a 1:30 so I decided to go for it. I had a good taper, and wasn't really worried about it (C race).

Kept the pace below 4:20 for the first 8-10K, then slowly started ramping up to 4:12-4:15 then 4:05 to 4:13 then under 4 for the last 2K.

Ate my gel at about the 11k mark but I DROPPED IT - and had to go back a few paces to pick it up. Also lost a lace, so another stop to tie it, grr was too lazy to put on speed laces.




I thought my pacing was enough to leave me at least a minute or so of margin, but with the 120m extra distance, the aid stations and the 2 pauses it was way closer than I though.

Bit of water, a snack bag of low salt chips and a small coffee. Drove home to the fam, out for lunch.

Without going into gory details, I was stuck on the potty at least 15 times over the next 5 hours, half a bottle of pepto, didn't feel up to anything until 3pm (went for a 45 min bike ride around the house).

Dunno if it was the coffee, chips, gel or just bad luck but I hope I don't have to deal with this ever again. :(




Run training/volume


I'm pissed about the timing so far - they switched to a new timing company and they are only sorting by Gun time. I know all about the awards and such but for the average 2000+ users, chip time is what matters. I think a lot of their chips got messed up as there's a ton of bad/obviously wrong readings. Anything that encourages bad seeding at the front is a bad thing for racing!