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Sub 2:50 DCM '11
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2:58 something, it was what it was.....a hard day at the office, will write a report later when on the plane.
hit halfway in 1:25:15, but was always going to be a tall order....almost ground to a halt near the end, but i kept going, and i made it!
Sooner or later, God will cut you down!
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2:58 something, it was what it was.....a hard day at the office, will write a report later when on the plane.
hit halfway in 1:25:15, but was always going to be a tall order....almost ground to a halt near the end, but i kept going, and i made it!
Sooner or later, God will cut you down!
Well done for keeping going....I was seriously hoping you'd hit the target though cos your training was so much better than mine....way to dent my confidence. Only 8min off the target after blowing up? That's some effort. Onward & upward.0 -
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Before I start off on a rant of a report…thanks for the well wishes again and commiserations…
As always hindsight is a great thing, and I have a lot of avenues to explore for the what if’s and all that but to be fair I just wasn’t in the shape for sub2:50, I was however in the region of giving it a go but I don’t think I’d have got there even if all of today’s negatives were erased.
Was getting set up last night and pinning my number to my singlet and noticed I was down to start in the purple corral (last), small panic but printed out my entry which states 2:31-3:10 and another document with my confirmed number and put them with the kit to bring in the morning. Got to the start early, went to info and they drew RED over the purple with a marker….but there was actually a guy from Cork manning the red corral entry anyway so I think I’d have gotten in.
Met up with Larry Brent and was just chatting away in the near empty corral, passed the time away but we were also right up the front behind the then 3(now 4) time winner and a few other elites/pacers….impressive looking, if that’s ok to say?
So the gun/horn went and Larry and I took it nice and handy being passed by tens of people all racing off, but the half also started with us…we joked about passing a lot of them afterwards, and we did pass a few but as I say a lot were half runners. My HR strap fell down and I was very close to chucking it but after I adjusted it for the 5th or 6th time it stayed in place, never really had that problem before. At this stage my pace was in the region of 6:2X high and Larry was gradually drifting ahead but I was running my race and he as running his. After a few kms we would turn into to wind and this is where my race may have turned, or at least catch up with me. I was running in a good pack of people presumable all chasing 2:50/1:25 but the wind was in our face, it wasn’t that strong but it was still enough to warrant a slower pace. I however stuck with the group and there was a few 6:25s in there, may have been a mistake. I should also point out that by mile 6, my feet were starting to hurt, the left more so.
The next phase of running is the turnaround point, running east which is pretty much a 16km stretch with the wind including two south/north u-turn sections. But as always the wind didn’t feel like it was behind, even though it was. The thing is it didn’t make life any easier, the pace was the same and the effort was the same so as much as it was behind us, I wasn’t able to gain. The weather reports also say at 10am the wind was blowing at 19km/hr(same as 9am stats). Larry passed me on the turnaround points and both times I mentioned, ‘I’m out’, keeping the pace but knowing I wouldn’t sustain it, Larry said ‘keep going, you will come round again’ and I kind of did, I was able to keep the 6:40s pace, which I was happy with. But those turnaround points really mess with my head. And my left foot was killing me putting all of my 180deg turn weight on it.
There was a few stretches in there that were totally drab and dull, a bit industrial and really not impressive; a very lonely run after the half runners broke off left, and shortly afterwards I stood on a small stone which didn’t have any long lasting effect but for that instant my face grimaced, it was painful!
Leading up to the final turn around is a stretch of rolling road that has you running out on one side while the return runners are on the other side, this went on for 1.5m ish, very hard to run against that at a very last stage in the race, but the distance is the distance. At this stage my pace was also into the 6:50s but I was quiet happy just to cruise along. I was running low and still 6-7miles to go. I eventually got to the turnaround point, only to do the same let’s put all my weight on my left foot cameo, but it was the last so got on with it. Now facing west again and with winds up to 30+km/hr, it was hard running into that, my pace dropped into the 7s which I was hoping to avoid but at the same time I couldn’t do anything about it….and so the home stretch arrived, something pre-race I was looking forward to, picking up the pace, passing people, running strong, looking and feeling great…but more importantly looking great
This time around it was a sorry affair, I was just going through the motions, keep running along, I wasn’t putting myself under pressure forcing the pace, I just ran what I ran, with 4km to go I got faced with a really strong gust of wind which almost ground me to a half and following that I got a bit light headed, woozy but was in no-man’s land at the time, so kept going saying, make it to the aid-station, which came but I kept going, then, make it to my gf’s sister(doctor) but she was at under 1km to go. I was watching the miles for the entire home stretch but that section of the race kind of passed me by and before I knew it I really was on the home stretch!
Got a big cheers from the sisters and I may have actually picked up the pace a little. There were then signs for 500m to go…300m to go, and I could have picked up the pace but didn’t bother, until turning the corner and with 100m to I decided to try a pass someone on the home straight, which I did but as usual, I forgot to stop my watch when I crossed the line. Bent over and stopped dead in my tracks, not feeling the best, a bit delirious etc but ‘ok’….at least that’s what I told the medics.
Saw Larry in the finishing chute then, he ran a very credible 2:53, which can be seen on the big 8 challenge, fair play Larry….and we hobbled in the direction of the pub.
So to summaries, I am wondering if not taking and gels made a difference? I did take 3 cliff shot blocks, square ‘blocks’ of gel type stuff but wasn’t really up for eating them so didn’t have anymore. At every aid station they were handing out gaterade and water, in which I availed of mabye 2-4 cups each station but the cups were pretty empty and I obviously split a bit despite my best efforts of covering the cup. This wind also had a effect even more so on the final stretch but my time was gone then and didn’t matter. My feel were killing me for pretty much the whole time, note to self
DON’T WEAR FLATS AGAIN FOR A MARATHON!!! (unless I actually train in them). Otherwise I was running within myself after the pace dropped, I took it handy, knew pushing it would end in disaster so didn’t quiet hit the wall or my race ended with a bang but I was happy to run slower when the going got tough, mile 14-16, that said, it still took a lot of effort keep chugging along.
Wont be doing a marathon for a while, ill be doing the kiwi_runner approach, short distance for a while, I’ve never actually run a 5k…lol.
Splits are:
1 6:40
2 6:27
3 6:25
4 6:25
5 6:32
6 6:38
7 6:23
8 6:23
9 6:28
10 6:32
11 6:29
12 6:25
13 6:23
14 6:34
15 6:36
16 6:37
17 6:46
18 6:44
19 6:53
20 6:52
21 7:07
22 7:03
23 7:22
24 7:42
25 8:05
26 7:49
26.4 ?
Finish time of 2:58:44mins.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUmGzciPfo
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