Sub 1:30 Half Marathon 2021 Edition (Read 448 times)

 

Zebano - I feel like we never get the 70s. It jumps straight from 60s to 80s/90s here in NYC. Agreed on the Strava challenges too: they're good for new runners to push themselves but otherwise don't help me.

 

Me - 5K sucked as expected. 17:44, so didn't even get my heat adjusted sub 17:30 I was pushing for. I won the race by a huge margin (it was a charity 5K with 50 person staggered starts), but I don't think that impacted me at all that I didn't have someone to run with. It was the heat plus humidity (according to the nearest weather station, it was 80F plus 66F dew point, or 27/19 for the weirdos), plus the fact I haven't done a V02 max workout since October! My legs were fine, I just couldn't breathe. I know that's usually the case with 5Ks, but this air sucking was way worse than normal. I know I'm in better shape than that time because I did a 6 mile tempo a few weeks ago around 5:50 pace, so I'm not too worried. I knew the race was in trouble when I saw the pink unicorn around the 1.5 mile mark, which was way too early. Piwi - I barely even deserve a participation certificate. They should have just given me swift kick in the groin and sent me home without a medal.

 

Still, it was fun to be out there racing again. Going to try to find another 5K to suffer my way through in 3-4 weeks. Also going to do a couple of V02 max workouts in the coming weeks to get that breathing fixed. CIM training won't really start until August so I can dedicate some time to the fast stuff now, which should be great base prep for marathon training.

 

ETA: I always remember what DW has said which is that even a bad race is a good workout. I gained some fitness by running this race, so I feel confident I can run a good race when I try again in a few weeks, barring another awful weather day.

You're a masochists! Racing in the heat sucks so much but it will make you mentally strong for the fall. Also 1.5mi in you hit the 5k suckfest? ouch, I always hope to make it to 2 miles before that hits but 1.8 is more typical. You deserve a medal just for that.

My coach asked what time of day I was going to do my track workout this week and gave me lunchtime paces as well as early-morning paces so I know the heat is real but frankly the morning paces scare me a touch while the heat adjusted ones don't....

Keen Great week, especially that long run. Have fun with the 2x2mi @10k  is what I think of that but you have a much better mileage base to be doing big volume workouts on than I do.

Keen - that workout sounds brutual. Sounds like something I would try as I was peaking for a race. I wonder why your coach has it so early in your schedule. Also I just booked my flight for CIM. Going to stay Sunday night this time around instead of rushing back to SFO. Nothing quite like a marathon in the morning, beer garden at 9:30 am, and a nap by 1 PM 

Zebano - you're a bit newer, but I've shared this before and have found it be spot on for adjusting temps. It's all based on TDP, or Kiwi Points as we call them here. This is you're running longer efforts, e.g. races or long tempos. If it's anything with a rest period, e.g. intervals, you take half the adjustment.

100 or less:   no pace adjustment

101 to 110:   0% to 0.5% pace adjustment

111 to 120:   0.5% to 1.0% pace adjustment

121 to 130:   1.0% to 2.0% pace adjustment

131 to 140:   2.0% to 3.0% pace adjustment

141 to 150:   3.0% to 4.5% pace adjustment

151 to 160:   4.5% to 6.0% pace adjustment

161 to 170:   6.0% to 8.0% pace adjustment

171 to 180:   8.0% to 10.0% pace adjustment

Above 180:   hard running not recommended

Piwi - I'm waiting for when you run a 5K faster than me soon and put the nail in my coffin 

JMac - like Darkwave said, if nothing else, it's a good workout.

Zebano - I got on board with Global Donut Day too.  No danger of me missing that one.

On the Strava thing, I know people that have actively switched off Strava because they were finding they got too sucked into going for CR's etc. and it compromised their running (to the point of getting injured in one or two cases).  I like Strava for the social aspects, I might have a go at the odd CR IF it fits into a workout I'm doing, but I also find it easy enough to ignore all that stuff.

Corey- good week, happy shoe shopping.

Keen - another good and wildlife-filled week there!

Watson - fair call.  We are very good at weather complaining.

Hold up here. KiwiPoint = Temperature (in Fahrenheit????) + Dew Point

(or is it + humidity)

Either way why are they using Fahrenheit?? The world's turned upside down again. 

Also 2 miles at 10k... ugg. I tried 3x1.5mi earlier this year as a with quarter mile recoveries as a peak workout before my 10k and it was ruff (also the day my calf cramped and I developed PF).

Frankly, I can't even remember how we started calling temperature plus dew point "Kiwi Points." It probably came about because they love complaining at temperatures for workouts that we wouldn't even think about, e.g. "mate it was brutal out there, reached almost 20 today, felt like a kiwi roasting on the barbie"

Anyway it's a very good chart that does a good job emphasizing that relative humidity doesn't matter much. 70F dew points at 80F temperatures (70% humidity) feels way more humid / worse for running than 60F with 100% humidity (i.e. 60F dew point)

Ahhh JMac always exaggerating!  As someone who has run in NZ and many states in the USA (e.g. New York, California, Florida, Texas...), I can say Auckland is the most sapping.  End of discussion.

Frankly, I can't even remember how we started calling temperature plus dew point "Kiwi Points." It probably came about because they love complaining at temperatures for workouts that we wouldn't even think about, e.g. "mate it was brutal out there, reached almost 20 today, felt like a kiwi roasting on the barbie"

In general we tend to not cook protected species on the barbie unless we're really hungry or bored.

Darkwave - nice week.

Keen - huge week as normal.