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Thursday Jul 18, 2019 #
7 PM
Running - Trail race (Sheldon) 28:21 [5] 6.01 km (4:43 / km) +229m 3:58 / km
ahr:129 max:167 (injured) shoes: Inov-8 Roclite 290 (blue)
25th.
Inverse profile from usual; started with very steep road downhill (pace for first 45s was below 3mins/k(!)) then a small amount of up/flat, then a mile downhill through fields of varying sharpness, but too steep to just let go. Speed at the front of the field was truly crazy - lots of youngsters (wow I'm so old). Then flat/slightly uphill and a half before it went mentally uphill - trail shoes slipping backwards in the dry kind of uphill. I overtook about 5 people by walking faster than they were, which is probably a record for me. One of them was Jordan Street whom I've only ever beaten once ever (in the DCRO Dash) and so once the hill became runnable and back from mud and rocks to fields, I really pushed very hard to stay ahead. And managed to! So pretty happy with that.
Not a race which suited me at all due to the length and steepness, and didn't like the downhill at the start when you're still in the pack. But better than Rudyard lake would've been, which was the alternative :)
Ran the last bit of the course backwards and then jogged back in with my mum - who kept running all the way up the hill #proud
Inverse profile from usual; started with very steep road downhill (pace for first 45s was below 3mins/k(!)) then a small amount of up/flat, then a mile downhill through fields of varying sharpness, but too steep to just let go. Speed at the front of the field was truly crazy - lots of youngsters (wow I'm so old). Then flat/slightly uphill and a half before it went mentally uphill - trail shoes slipping backwards in the dry kind of uphill. I overtook about 5 people by walking faster than they were, which is probably a record for me. One of them was Jordan Street whom I've only ever beaten once ever (in the DCRO Dash) and so once the hill became runnable and back from mud and rocks to fields, I really pushed very hard to stay ahead. And managed to! So pretty happy with that.
Not a race which suited me at all due to the length and steepness, and didn't like the downhill at the start when you're still in the pack. But better than Rudyard lake would've been, which was the alternative :)
Ran the last bit of the course backwards and then jogged back in with my mum - who kept running all the way up the hill #proud