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

JMac - Did you feel like running would rip the shoe?  Was it that level of tight?  I'm leaning towards Endorphins now.

 

piwi - You can't expect someone from Canada to know the difference between New Zealand and Australia 

Don’t you group me in with those French speaking syrup suckers. 

yyyy/mm/dd -- no confusion and when used as the start of a file name (i.e. photos) it will sort them by date, even when the files are sorted by name!

Yes, international emails need to be explicit.

 

But when you say this out loud don't you say "April Third, Twenty Twenty-One", rather than "The 3rd of April..."?

Madness!!

I prefer to use Ides, nones and kalendspeople's! Of <insert month> just to confuse people!

Fingers crossed it looks like everything is go for this Sunday's 10km race at Run the Point, unless something catastrophic happens in the next few days (which is not impossible).

Weather looks like it might be a bit on the warm side, but I'm just excited to be racing given it'll be third time lucky for this particular event.

With Southern Lakes HM only 5 weeks away now, I'm feeling a little underdone on the race mileage (having not raced since Dec) so may have to chuck a parkrun 5km in there some time over the next month as well.

You Americans are crazy. Next you will be pronouncing Adidas and Subaru wrong 

Sue-BAHHHHH-ruuuuuu or Rue-bah-rue (insert cartoon Great Dane laugh here). Either way it’s a weird way to say Volkswagen. #TheWorldIsFlat 
AH-Dee-DAS like Das Boot not UHHH-DEEEE-daaaaaahhhhs right? 

dates it’s pretty hard to mistake something so simple as ‘Monday, the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Queen, Barbara Walters, Twenty Twenty, we shall meet, at dawn, to engage ourselves in glorious parading.’

I typically have to deal with time zones so ‘your time or my time’ matters. Having ‘a call at 3’ might change the phone number you call during non-work from home life. I’ll answer and be awake just don’t act shocked when you’re not the only one who thinks 3pm is a foolish time for a conference call.

steve that workout looked awesome!

With the ChCh half in 2 weeks, I almost feel like I'm in sub 1:30 form based on last night's workout and how I've pulled up today.  The coach is keen to make it marathon pace, which is 1:40.  I think I could do 1:35 and not need any recovery so I might try and talk him round.  Or perhaps I shouldn't be so impatient and just stick to the plan.

So you paid money to enter a half...and aren’t going to race it?  All my tempo training runs are free of charge and start at my front door.

 

So you paid money to enter a half...and aren’t going to race it?  All my tempo training runs are free of charge and start at my front door.

I'm in the same boat here.  I'm still on the start list for the full marathon for CHC for exactly the same reason... entries from last year got rolled forward and weren't refundable.  I won't be running it because my goal half is 3 weeks later and there's no real point spending money on flights and accommodation just to make use of an entry (even if I was to downgrade to the half), would rather focus on the goal race.  If I lived in CHC I'd probably do exactly what Steve is doing - just go out and run it as a tempo run.

Corey - Hey it’s great to hear from you. How’s training going on lately?

 Flavio doing well, but still struggling a little getting mentally back into training, unlike your display of mental fortitude, again what an awesome performance in a TT.  I've managed to work my way back up do about 28 miles per week on 4 days/week no real WO just slow going

No concrete races planned yet, but looking to run a 1 mile race in Aug. and hopefully I'll be back to racing some HM in 2022.