Training Log: forest grump

Event: Alloa Half Marathon
 

Running warm up/down 20:00 [1]
shoes: Grid Onmi 4

Running & Stretching before the race

Running race (Alloa Half Marathon) 1:19:56 [5] 13.1 mi (6:06 / mi) vdot: 58.4

OH MY GOD......a PB on this course by nearly 7 mins and a PB ever by 4 mins.

I knew it would be fast as there was hardly any wind. Ben Hartman turned up proclaiming a sub 80 min run was the order of the day. I however set myself a modest target of 85:12 which incidentally is exactly 6:30 pace for every mile (and still a PB on this course having done 87 and 86 mins before). Started off feeling OK and even didn't stand at the front to try and go off at a slow enough pace....that failed though!!

Every mile when I was timing the split was much less that 6:30, but having done this before I know that you have to be ahead by the time you get to Tilli as the rest is into a headwind or uphill. By 9 miles I was still massively ahead with the Mentrie hill still to come. Saw Fraser by the end of his road in Menstrie and pushed on despite my feet killing me (I have megga bad blisters now!!). Passed the end of my street at exactly 12 miles and with Susan & the girls cheering me on and with less than 1 mile to go I realised that if I tried really hard I might break 80...which I did...just!!

Times were...

5:52
6:12
6:18
6:05
5:39 (downhill to Tilli)
6:26 (1.1 miles according to my Garmin)
6:16
5:35 (only 0.9 miles according to my Garmin)
6:13
6:31 (uphill from Menstrie to Muirside)
5:45 (only 0.9 miles according to my Garmin)
6.20
6:14 (1.1 miles according to my Garmin)

The lesson of the day though was that the Virtual Partner on the Garmin was useless; just take a split at ever mile!!

In the end I was 41st out of 977...not bad really!!

C • Nice 3

Stretching warm up/down 15:00 [1]

Would have done a proper warm down only my feet were killing me

Did some stretching when I got home though

Note

Was going to go for an early morning "easy" jog to loosen up for Sunday, but in the end I had my hair cut......no really I did!!

Running 1:17:00 [3]
shoes: Saucony Pro Grid Xodus

FVO headlamp run round the back of Dumyat and up the glen. I was tapering for the Alloa 1/2 this weekend, Tom was on a recovery run, Jon was tired and Trevor ran with us...all in all it wasn't exactly fast!!