Intraining Twilight Half Marathon 89:08 - 46th out of 673
This was the worst race of my five year career by the length of the straight, 11 minutes outside my PB and an extremely disappointing night. Aiming for a top ten finish and possibly a top five finish, I was thrashed, carved up, given windburn and not good enough on the day. Insert the cliche of your choice. End of story.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
Countdown to the Twilight Half
Sat PM - 4000m Cross Country - 2nd out of 20 in 13:30 (6:30, 7:00)
Made my comeback to XC after a 17 year break!! This event was held just down the road from my place at the 7th Brigade Park, Chermside. I entered the 4000m instead of the main 5000m race so I could get home in time to watch the Broncos take on the Warriors! Conditions were breezy, with a couple of hills thrown into the mix and the course was fast and bare in patches and thick and slow with soft grass in other areas. I had come into this race untapered and was treating it as a hard training session not unlike a PCRG 3KTT. A couple of John Paul College runners took off at the start but after 400m I had settled into third. After reaching the top of the first hill I surged past a JPC runner to move into second - I was running solidly without really threatening to set the course alight. At this stage, I was about 20m behind the leader who I later found out was Matt Smith, who has some low 70min Half Marathons to his credit. He was bowling along comfortably in his spikes and I was doing the hard yakka in my heavy Brooks Glycerin 7's. Smith flagged a little late in the race as I was kicking for home but it was too little, too late and he finished in 13:25 whilst I was second in 13:30. It was a solid enough run but hard to guage exactly how well I ran due to the lack of comparable times from those runners I race regularly. Had some good support from Matt L who was in the neightbourhood and dropped in to cheer me on - thanks Mate.
Sun - PM - 90 mins @ 4:51mins/km
Easy PM run, tapering for the Twilight Half.
Mon AM - 30 mins easy
Ran Mon AM in lieu of Sun PM.
Tues - PCRG 3KTT - 9:45 - 3:14, 3:18, 3:13
Felt tired after completing a block of hard training last week but as always, once I got underway and the adrenalin rush kicked in, I was ok. Settled in 4th behind Matt L and then moved into 3rd at the 500m. Worked solidly in the second k and went past Andy on the hill just after 2k and hit the afterburners, trying to run down Jase in front but he was too good, running a 9:39 course PB with your truly trailing home in second. Pretty happy to run my third fastest 3k ever coming off that hard training block
Tues PM - No run - taper
Wed - 50 mins 10k's @ 4:51 mins/km
Wed PM - No run - taper
Thurs PM - 12 mins of 30 secs on/off
Did this session by myself in the afternoon at Kedron Brook in some gorgeous rain. Jogged the recoveries slower than I would have done at PCRG and felt sharp.
Fri - 40mins, 8k's @ 5:00mins/km
Made my comeback to XC after a 17 year break!! This event was held just down the road from my place at the 7th Brigade Park, Chermside. I entered the 4000m instead of the main 5000m race so I could get home in time to watch the Broncos take on the Warriors! Conditions were breezy, with a couple of hills thrown into the mix and the course was fast and bare in patches and thick and slow with soft grass in other areas. I had come into this race untapered and was treating it as a hard training session not unlike a PCRG 3KTT. A couple of John Paul College runners took off at the start but after 400m I had settled into third. After reaching the top of the first hill I surged past a JPC runner to move into second - I was running solidly without really threatening to set the course alight. At this stage, I was about 20m behind the leader who I later found out was Matt Smith, who has some low 70min Half Marathons to his credit. He was bowling along comfortably in his spikes and I was doing the hard yakka in my heavy Brooks Glycerin 7's. Smith flagged a little late in the race as I was kicking for home but it was too little, too late and he finished in 13:25 whilst I was second in 13:30. It was a solid enough run but hard to guage exactly how well I ran due to the lack of comparable times from those runners I race regularly. Had some good support from Matt L who was in the neightbourhood and dropped in to cheer me on - thanks Mate.
Sun - PM - 90 mins @ 4:51mins/km
Easy PM run, tapering for the Twilight Half.
Mon AM - 30 mins easy
Ran Mon AM in lieu of Sun PM.
Tues - PCRG 3KTT - 9:45 - 3:14, 3:18, 3:13
Felt tired after completing a block of hard training last week but as always, once I got underway and the adrenalin rush kicked in, I was ok. Settled in 4th behind Matt L and then moved into 3rd at the 500m. Worked solidly in the second k and went past Andy on the hill just after 2k and hit the afterburners, trying to run down Jase in front but he was too good, running a 9:39 course PB with your truly trailing home in second. Pretty happy to run my third fastest 3k ever coming off that hard training block
Tues PM - No run - taper
Wed - 50 mins 10k's @ 4:51 mins/km
Wed PM - No run - taper
Thurs PM - 12 mins of 30 secs on/off
Did this session by myself in the afternoon at Kedron Brook in some gorgeous rain. Jogged the recoveries slower than I would have done at PCRG and felt sharp.
Fri - 40mins, 8k's @ 5:00mins/km
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