8km today and for the week so far, 10/11 days I have run this month
At 9:30am I met with a small group of Melbourne Midday Milers, today's event was two laps of the Tan, nominate your own time, so you can go as fast or slow as you like. I noticed on the trophy that this event has been going for many years since early 80s, with even Mr Crosbie with his name as a previous winner, I think 1984...
I nominated 36m 06s as my finishing time, the legs a little tired from yesterdays jaunt and I had no intent on pushing myself too hard. Off we went from the drive way near the Observatory Cafe (breakfast location) running anti-clockwise direction (yuk), for the first km I ran with 2 guys and then dropped off from then once on Anderson St, where I could feel my quads with every step going down the hill. On nearing my first lap I stopped and had a mouthful of water and then continued on. Gary (uncle & a fellow MMM & Western A) was the official time keeper, once finishing my second lap I was told by the group that not surprisingly I was 'way' ahead of my time, 96 seconds.... which means I ran the 2 laps in 34m 30s, and my laps were within 4 seconds or so of each other, which is good. I found the run easy, but my legs were tired, breathing very easy, so 2 laps of low 17s, not bad.
Some pics to follow in time, PM was taking photo's prior & after.
I was thinking last night about my run at Brimbank, it was only 2 years ago I could not break 100 min for a HM, yesterday I easily did that in a training run.
3 comments:
That's not bad time keeping. Did you find yourself looking at your left wrist for a watch that wasn't there.
No I don't normally use my watch on recovery runs except to noye start & finish time. My estimate had me come 2nd last out of 8-10, last was 2 min out and 3rd last was 45 sec out, so my guess was very bad, but my splits were good.
Those 'guess your time' runs are fun. We do one a month with Pat (1k) and there's a 10k one every January at BRRC which one of my good running buddies has won two years in a row.
Anyway, well done.
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