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Sunday Nov 22, 2015 #
2 PM
Stationary bike 45:00 [2]
Easy recovery spin. Felt not too bad - better than I deserve! Thought I would be broken, haha.
Strength and conditioning 40:00 [1]
Upper body training - chin ups, push ups, bench press, push press, rows etc.
Saturday Nov 21, 2015 #
Event: Queenstown Marathon
8 AM
Running race 3:32:38 [4] 42.2 km (5:02 / km) +266m 4:53 / km
shoes: Nike Zoom Streak Sep 15
Queenstown Marathon.
Originally had the aim of about 3:15 for this race. Well unfortunately, training didn't go as well as planned (especially didn't do enough long runs, oops). So it came to yesterday and I basically had decided I would be happy just to finish.
I knew that the first 20 km would be fine, then next 10 might be starting to hurt, and the last 12 would be, hmmm... I would struggle through somehow!
So I started really comfortably, and tried to just run with a smile on my face and enjoy it. And I did :) The first 10 passed so quickly, on undulating trails through Arrowtown and a nearby park.
The next 10 or so were around Lake Hayes, which was again beautiful, and I was still mindful to keep a manageable pace. There were more hills in these first 20 km than I expected! Well attackpoint doesn't seem to agree, but I swear they were there. Nothing too long, but lots of short grunty ones.
It was at around 20 km when coming out to the road that I suddenly started to feel a bit sick (those gels) and very unsure about still having so far to go. I had to break the course down in my head to small milestones - usually the drink stations, which I had memorized, haha :) and I also told myself that the bad feeling would go away - fortunately it did. But I wasn't feeling too great about life for a while there.
Somehow the next 10 km passed as well, but my legs were starting to feel slow. And I kept wanting to stop and walk a bit at the drink stations. At the 32 km one was where the real struggle started though, because by then my legs felt done. It became really a mental battle, just to put one foot in front of the other. I broke it down into 3 km sections and that helped. It also helped having people around me, and a lot were in worse shape than me, because I was passing more than the other way around.
Finally it came to the last 39 km drink station, and I ran those last 3.2 km so damn slow, but I made it :)
I guess in hindsight, i could have maybe gone faster, but above all I didn't want to hit the wall, so at least I can now say I successfully avoided it!!
I think to do better at marathons I would need to basically run a LOT of kilometres. My legs were the limiting factor, not my lungs, which were pretty fine the whole way. Also, more long runs, and longer runs, to practise the mental focus that is required.
Will I do another one? Hmm... yes :) don't know when, but I loved the mental aspect of it and I want to try to do better!
Strangely, my legs don't feel as bad after that as I had expected!
Originally had the aim of about 3:15 for this race. Well unfortunately, training didn't go as well as planned (especially didn't do enough long runs, oops). So it came to yesterday and I basically had decided I would be happy just to finish.
I knew that the first 20 km would be fine, then next 10 might be starting to hurt, and the last 12 would be, hmmm... I would struggle through somehow!
So I started really comfortably, and tried to just run with a smile on my face and enjoy it. And I did :) The first 10 passed so quickly, on undulating trails through Arrowtown and a nearby park.
The next 10 or so were around Lake Hayes, which was again beautiful, and I was still mindful to keep a manageable pace. There were more hills in these first 20 km than I expected! Well attackpoint doesn't seem to agree, but I swear they were there. Nothing too long, but lots of short grunty ones.
It was at around 20 km when coming out to the road that I suddenly started to feel a bit sick (those gels) and very unsure about still having so far to go. I had to break the course down in my head to small milestones - usually the drink stations, which I had memorized, haha :) and I also told myself that the bad feeling would go away - fortunately it did. But I wasn't feeling too great about life for a while there.
Somehow the next 10 km passed as well, but my legs were starting to feel slow. And I kept wanting to stop and walk a bit at the drink stations. At the 32 km one was where the real struggle started though, because by then my legs felt done. It became really a mental battle, just to put one foot in front of the other. I broke it down into 3 km sections and that helped. It also helped having people around me, and a lot were in worse shape than me, because I was passing more than the other way around.
Finally it came to the last 39 km drink station, and I ran those last 3.2 km so damn slow, but I made it :)
I guess in hindsight, i could have maybe gone faster, but above all I didn't want to hit the wall, so at least I can now say I successfully avoided it!!
I think to do better at marathons I would need to basically run a LOT of kilometres. My legs were the limiting factor, not my lungs, which were pretty fine the whole way. Also, more long runs, and longer runs, to practise the mental focus that is required.
Will I do another one? Hmm... yes :) don't know when, but I loved the mental aspect of it and I want to try to do better!
Strangely, my legs don't feel as bad after that as I had expected!
Friday Nov 20, 2015 #
5 PM
Running 22:27 [2] 4.71 km (4:46 / km) +5m 4:45 / km
shoes: Nike Zoom Streak Sep 15
Pre-marathon jog. Oh my god it was so windy - is it going to be like that tomorrow?? :(
Thursday Nov 19, 2015 #
Note
(rest day)
Long day.
Wednesday Nov 18, 2015 #
10 AM
Running 30:00 [2] 6.5 km (4:37 / km)
shoes: Nike Zoom Streak Sep 15
Tuesday Nov 17, 2015 #
3 PM
Running 32:09 [2] 6.01 km (5:21 / km) +101m 4:56 / km
shoes: Nike Zoom Streak 5 Mar 15
Maitai track again - was meant to do more, but was feeling so awful and I don't know why :( so lame.
On yeah, and I still had massive DOMS from the weekend :(
On yeah, and I still had massive DOMS from the weekend :(
Monday Nov 16, 2015 #
4 PM
Strength and conditioning 45:00 [1]
Some upper body strength stuff.
7 PM
Running 37:57 [2] 7.46 km (5:05 / km) +129m 4:41 / km
shoes: Nike Zoom Streak 5 May 15
Run with my flatmate Sam. Was good, he's training for a half marathon and seems to be going quite well!
oops my legs are pretty sore from strength yesterday... maybe that was a bit too close to the race.
I think DOMS is a lot worse when you aren't getting proper sleep. not a randomized controlled trial or anything, just an observation :)
oops my legs are pretty sore from strength yesterday... maybe that was a bit too close to the race.
I think DOMS is a lot worse when you aren't getting proper sleep. not a randomized controlled trial or anything, just an observation :)