Training Log Archive: Bruce

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Midday Milers Mile Handicap - Olympic Park
There appeared to be a brand new surface at Olympic Park, just in time for them to demolish it in the next 12 months.

I started 42 seconds behind the front marker, with 26 runners in the field. I made up a lot of ground on the first 2 laps, but I struggled to pass runners on the last 2.
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74s (409m)
74s
76s
74s
I finished midfield in about 12th place.
I was hoping to get a little closer to 4m50s, but there was quite a strong headwind on the home straight. The tail wind on the back straight never seems to fully make up for it.

Fawkner Park in reverse.
Last run of summer and I'm still waiting for the hot weather. I only visited the beach on a lunch time run once this year, down several trips compared to last year.

My watch band broke on Friday, so I used Anne's GPS watch for this weekend's races. I'll try to connect it up to my log later.

The Long Distance race was held at Brown's Reef with plenty of spider webs and locusts in the forest. A big field lined up for the mass start with 2 short loops (with 4 variations) before a lengthy common final sector of the race. Uppill, Barr, Reuben Smith, Piotr Czajkowski and Anders Dahlin led after the first lap. Bruce Arthur and Max Neve had a longer first lap, but Arthur rejoined the leading group at the pivot control, just 5 seconds behind the leaders. Uppill, Arthur and Barr started to get away, but Smith
and Czajkowski caught back up on a tricky depression at control 10. Smith, Uppill and Barr then got away by 30 seconds up the hill to 13, but Arthur recovered and stayed in touch. Barr faltered in the last 2kms to leave the race down to 3. Uppill was challenged by Smith, but he appeared to have enough in reserve to take the win by 6 seconds from Smith, with Arthur rounding out the placings 30 seconds back.

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