Sunday, August 24, 2008
It's not time yet...
Thanks to James for the bib (N1985) today so that i coud run in the half-marathon. IT was a great opportunity to put in a bit of a time trial, albeit without much of a taper going. Had a two hour bike ride on the Friday, followed by 20 minutes of inhaling city fumes while running. Slacked on Saturday, so it was quite an OK short-taper.
A for the run itself, the first 2 kms of the entire 21km was slow-as. 4:20 for the first km was not a good look, and the 2nd km did not go much faster due to me starting quite far back in the seething mass of runners. Unsure of the kms going past (sigh, the km markers were not the best!) i found out that my time read 41or so minutes at the 10km mark. Clearly i was not going to make a PB, although the rear 11km of the race was done in 42 minutes (an ideal negative split in any case).
I am just typing this over two hours after i crossed the finish line. Still got a brick in the afternoon (which i'll take at a very recreational/recovery pace) with the TBB crew.
I'll look for some pictures i can put up for today.
Cheers and out!
A for the run itself, the first 2 kms of the entire 21km was slow-as. 4:20 for the first km was not a good look, and the 2nd km did not go much faster due to me starting quite far back in the seething mass of runners. Unsure of the kms going past (sigh, the km markers were not the best!) i found out that my time read 41or so minutes at the 10km mark. Clearly i was not going to make a PB, although the rear 11km of the race was done in 42 minutes (an ideal negative split in any case).
I am just typing this over two hours after i crossed the finish line. Still got a brick in the afternoon (which i'll take at a very recreational/recovery pace) with the TBB crew.
I'll look for some pictures i can put up for today.
Cheers and out!
