Did I manage to race myself back to form last night?
Yesterday I did my normal Roo+Lake 10.6km morning run (4;20 K's).
Yesterday evening was a Queensland Masters Meet at QSAC (ANZ Stadium). Race start time was 7;00pm and managed to arrive in plenty of time. My standard 3km warm up. Conditions at the start were cooling down to around 22 O C and the wind died down as dusk fell. My plan was to treat it like a training session = Hard lap Float lap.
Cracked off with a 72 first lap, probably overcooking it but mentally (and physically) able to cope with an easy follow up lap. My glutes were giving some gip but otherwise ran well. I was very surprised to see the clock at 5200m 17;15 which meant I had gone through 5000m in 16;35 (why did I only run 16;47 on Saturday?).
I managed to battle past the multiple walkers and slower runners by running in the second lane.
Phil Davies was lap scoring/timekeeping and gave me a shout out that the Queensland M55 was on with 4 laps to go.
My Hard lap Float lap had begun to morph together but this news left me no choice but to try and run hard through to the finish.Funnily I felt somewhat deprived of my last two float laps!
My reward was to break Alan Bradford's 1994 Qld M55 record by 8 seconds.
I managed to run with an average heart rate at 170bpm and pushed that up to 179bpm on the last lap. That's my maximum heart rate and reaching it now always seems to cause me to wretch which I did just after the finish. I was so close to puking but managed to hold it back. This was perhaps exacerbated by a curry at lunch time and fruit during the afternoon which not surprisingly caused my stomach to cramp horribly during the latter part of my run.
My body was wrecked on my warm down and again this morning on my recovery Roo+Lake.
I believe 33;34 ranks me #1 in the World M55's Rankings at this point which will add pressure and put a target on my back!
https://www.mastersrankings.com/rankings/
Yesterday I did my normal Roo+Lake 10.6km morning run (4;20 K's).
Yesterday evening was a Queensland Masters Meet at QSAC (ANZ Stadium). Race start time was 7;00pm and managed to arrive in plenty of time. My standard 3km warm up. Conditions at the start were cooling down to around 22 O C and the wind died down as dusk fell. My plan was to treat it like a training session = Hard lap Float lap.
Cracked off with a 72 first lap, probably overcooking it but mentally (and physically) able to cope with an easy follow up lap. My glutes were giving some gip but otherwise ran well. I was very surprised to see the clock at 5200m 17;15 which meant I had gone through 5000m in 16;35 (why did I only run 16;47 on Saturday?).
I managed to battle past the multiple walkers and slower runners by running in the second lane.
Phil Davies was lap scoring/timekeeping and gave me a shout out that the Queensland M55 was on with 4 laps to go.
My Hard lap Float lap had begun to morph together but this news left me no choice but to try and run hard through to the finish.Funnily I felt somewhat deprived of my last two float laps!
My reward was to break Alan Bradford's 1994 Qld M55 record by 8 seconds.
I managed to run with an average heart rate at 170bpm and pushed that up to 179bpm on the last lap. That's my maximum heart rate and reaching it now always seems to cause me to wretch which I did just after the finish. I was so close to puking but managed to hold it back. This was perhaps exacerbated by a curry at lunch time and fruit during the afternoon which not surprisingly caused my stomach to cramp horribly during the latter part of my run.
My body was wrecked on my warm down and again this morning on my recovery Roo+Lake.
I believe 33;34 ranks me #1 in the World M55's Rankings at this point which will add pressure and put a target on my back!
https://www.mastersrankings.com/rankings/
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| On my knees after finishing, close to puking! (Photo Peter Reeves) |
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| Pete says winners are grinners. |
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| The lads |
