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Congrats Chris great job and looks like very close to sub 40. This will give Jmac more fuel to ridicule our courses and measurements here
I think you should dress as Lady Gaga anyway
55+ PBs 5k 18:36 June 3rd TT
" If you don't use it you lose it, but if you use it, it wears out.
Somewhere in between is about right "
Congrats Chris great job and looks like very close to sub 40. This will give Jmac more fuel to ridicule our courses and measurements here I think you should dress as Lady Gaga anyway
In fairness to JMac, the one 10km course in NZ that I know to be certified to IAAF/AIMS standards - the Auckland course at Bruce Pulman Park - generally has runners at 10.1-10.2km on the watch (and there aren't any trees or buildings around that would screw up the GPS). The track 10k's I've run have been 10.6-10.8km on the watch. But I agree this still calls for some Gaga action!
3,000m: 9:07.7 (Nov-21) | 5,000m: 15:39 (Dec-19) | 10,000m: 32:34 (Mar-20)
10km: 33:15 (Sep-19) | HM: 1:09:41 (May-21)* | FM: 2:41:41 (Oct-20)
* Net downhill course
Last race: Waterfront HM, 7 Apr, 1:15:48
Up next: Runway5, 4 May
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Great stuff watson - do you know the official time yet? Could be sub 40.
Just updating my race report, my official time was 1:33:05 and 6th place.
5km: 18:34 11/23 │ 10km: 39:10 8/23 │ HM: 1:26:48 9/23 │ M: 3:34:49 6/23
2024 Races:
Motorway Half Marathon February 25, 2024 1:29:55
Christchurch Half-Marathon April 21, 2024
Selwyn Marathon June 2, 2024
Dunedin Half Marathon September 15, 2024
The course is on a winding road with bush and hills on either side, so it is hard on GPS.
Hamish Carson had 10.09km, he is sharp, a 3:36 1500m runner, he did 29:5x today. I totally missed he was coming to the finish as I turned around, so I was pretty close to crashing into him.
I thought that Gaga was for failing to go sub 20 in a 5km.
In a 5km race, I haven't gone sub 20 for over 4 years! I have only raced a few in the last 4 years, in hot conditions and/or bad shape.
I will pre warn Mark here, when I ran Wairarapa full, I had 42.0x km, although others had 42.2km plus.
PRs: 5km 18:43 (Dec 2015), 10km 39:59 (Sep 2020), half 1:26:16 (Sep 2016), full 3:09:28 (Jun 2015)
40+ PRs: 5km 19:31 (Oct 2020), 10km 39:59 (Sep 2020), half 1:29:39 (Jun 2018), full 3:13:55 (Sep 2022)
2023 PRs (hope to beat in 2024): 5km 20:34, 10km 41:37, half 1:32:32, full 3:21:05
2024 PRs: 5km 20:25
Edit:
Wairarapa, I had 42.13km. Only other person I can find had 42.29km.
My Garmin FR15 often reads short. Piwi used to have one, and had the same issue.
The course is on a winding road with bush and hills on either side, so it is hard on GPS. Hamish Carson had 10.09km, he is sharp, a 3:36 1500m runner, he did 29:5x today. I totally missed he was coming to the finish as I turned around, so I was pretty close to crashing into him. I thought that Gaga was for failing to go sub 20 in a 5km. In a 5km race, I haven't gone sub 20 for over 4 years! I have only raced a few in the last 4 years, in hot conditions and/or bad shape. I will pre warn Mark here, when I ran Wairarapa full, I had 42.0x km, although others had 42.2km plus.
Hamish Carson lapped me twice on the way to a 29:4x on the track last November! I must’ve improved by March this year when I only got lapped once by Cam Graves 😂
Re Wairarapa, the organisers said it’s measured to Athletics NZ standards so that’ll do for me. No way I’m running another marathon until COVID is done with ... it’s just too much of a physical and mental investment to run the risk that the race might not go ahead!
You might have missed my second post. I had Wairarapa at 42.13km.
Sydney in 2015, I had 600m elevation which was clearly wrong - more like 200m elevation.
JamesD
Congrats, watson!
My legs felt a bit tired all week after my HMP track workout on Sunday. Increasing my swimming distance may have contributed. Tropical Storm Sally dumped a lot of rain on us Wednesday but didn’t do any real damage. It does seem to have lowered temperatures, and nighttime lows are now below 70/21, so summer looks to be over. Still no recent news about my last chance half option on October 31 - a few weeks ago the organizers’ Facebook page said they were still planning to hold it, but they only update once every few weeks.
Sun - 8.7 track miles including 2x3@~HMGP (1st set 6:42, 2nd 6:59) w/3:50 rest
Mon - 6.2 recovery
Tues - 10.6 slow
Weds - 37 minutes swimming
Thurs - 12 miles slow
Fri - 7.6 recovery
Sat - 45 minutes swimming
Total - about 45.1 miles
12/26/52-week averages - 41/41/39 mpw
Post-1987 PRs: Half 1:30:14 (2019); 10K 39:35 (2019); 5K 19:12 (2017); Mile 5:37.3 (2020)
'24 Goals: consistency, age-graded PRs, half < 1:32
James keep up the good work.
Watson since I changed to the FR235 watch I dont seem to read short compared to others now. It always used to be 100m shorter than running mates over 10kms.
I didn't feel motivated this week but have managed to run 85kms thanks to aborting this morning's fishing mission because of wind and meeting a mate for a jog which ended up been an easy 20kms for me.
Piwi - bummer that the wind ruined your fishing mission. I was running up Upper Harbour Bridge this morning and noticed two people fishing out of kayaks under the bridge - was a perfect morning up here. Anyways nice week.
James - fingers crossed for your half. Sometimes the legs take a while to recover from those big workouts.
Me - Ended up being a middling sort of a week, trying to keep some volume in the legs with the goal marathon still 3 weeks away, but also trying not to overdo it as there is definitely a bit of fatigue there at the moment. The post-tibial tendon niggle has now been joined by a peroneal tendon niggle, although weirdly the further I got into my long run this morning, the less I noticed it. Anyway 3 weeks to go, so this week will probably be similar and then 2 weeks to taper. After 10 months, I'm more or less over marathon training now so kind of looking forward to (finally) getting it done (I hope).
I'm now convinced the universe is doing its absolute best to stop me running a marathon. Today's new cases might delay changes in alert levels and prevent Rotorua going ahead full-stop (even though I can't run it). Meanwhile on Friday there was an accident on the Harbour Bridge, which has led to a number of the lanes being temporarily closed while they assess and repair it. It should be fine by the time Auckland Marathon is on (Nov 1), which is Plan D, but there's always the chance it's not and they have to cancel the race because of the bridge issues (albeit I suspect their backup plan would actually just be to two-lap the second half of the course). Of course I'm hoping Plan C (Wairarapa Country Marathon) goes ahead fine and it doesn't go to Plan D, but the way this year has gone, who knows?
RIP Milkman
The course certification is two ways. One, I'm spoiled because even small charity 5ks by me are certified. On the other hand, NZ is a joke. I said this before, but if I were a top athlete in a country like Mark, I'd band with other top athletes and demand that this got fixed. I'd be terrified if I were Mark about running a marathon and having to question whether it was legit.
5K: 16:37 (11/20) | 10K: 34:49 (10/19) | HM: 1:14:57 (5/22) | FM: 2:36:31 (12/19)
You do kind of have a point JMac. I am quite lucky in that all of my PB's are either on the track (only way you get that wrong is if your lap counter screws up) or on courses that are certified (mostly because they've been current or previous National Championship courses, or are AIMS measured).
National Road Champs in Auckland tends to really highlight this. Lat year, plenty of runners from other regions ended up a minute or so slower on that (certified) course than in their regional races despite overall pretty good weather. And yes it's got that niggly S bend but most other regional courses have their own issues (like Wellington has some u turns I think). Conversely almost all of the Auckland runners were considerably faster at National Champs purely because the weather was much better than it was for Auckland Champs on the same course which was a super-windy day.
Damn, two new community cases today means Rotorua is very much a mabye for me.
Piwi and Mark - nice weeks.
James - nice week and good luck re the half.
My week was very much a taper week. Ended up missing Thursday running due to one of our cats had gone missing, lucklily we found her, but too late to run that evening.
Watson congrats on the 10k once again. You have got back to form really quickly.
2 community cases not that bad is it ?
I dug up an old photo from my 2014 marathon in Melbourne to confirm distance on my old Soleus gps watch. This was before Strava
Watson / Piwi - the problem is those new community cases were from someone who had completed isolation in Christchurch. So even with a good run of zero cases last week, the problem is now they need to contact trace and get on top of these new ones - which could include people outside Auckland (esp. Christchurch). Depending how confident they feel about that, there is a chance that the levels across the country stay where they are until they're on top of this. I'd say Rotorua is probably 50/50 now but you'll know tomorrow one way or another.