Competitive Jerks Racing and Training - 2023 (Read 574 times)

Let's get this PR Steve 

My week in the books. As usual approaching a race, coach followed up the peak mileage week with lower volume but a lot of workouts.  Wednesday's tempo workout felt great, 45 mins at ~3:35 mins/km effort.  Did it on rolling terrain and felt very controlled until the last 10 mins or so when I cranked it up a notch despite feeling a little tired at that point.

Looking forward to next Sunday... it's a hilly course and it's changed a bit since I last raced it in 2018, but it'll be fun to be road racing again.

Weekly for period: From: 18/09/2023 To 24/09/2023

Totals: Time: 05:31:03 - 🦅Imperial: 51.53 mi - Metric: 82.90 km

 

Does not compute!

Haha.  After some of those beasty hills during the trail series, I don't think these will feel quite so bad!

WOW, Steve crushed it, great work!!

Thanks all!  It was perfect all the way.  Very few negative thoughts.  Laid a good base in the first half then progressively ramped up the pace all the way to the finish.  It started getting warm in the second half - I could see that coming and grabbed a water every time I could, had a mouthful and put the rest over my head.  It is a beautiful day to go to the pub now.

Official time is 1:26:49.

Steve - Oh man, you deserved this break through so much after all the set backs you've had over the last 2 years.
Great job and I'm sure the fact you finished so strong must've put a smile on your face.

Keen - I see Garmin has told you you are Elite endurance.
That kind of makes sense, you are running about the same number of weekly hours as the elites.
Kipchoge running 200km at 4 min/k average pace is 800 minutes, roughly 16 hours.

MMerkle - Remember that time that Kipchoge, Bekele and Gebrselassie ran a 50 mile race?
Right!

If you care about going faster over 10k a 50 miler race is the last thing you want to do.

Me - I'm quite happy about this week. One week to go now till the Köln half marathon.

Weekly for period: From: 09/18/2023 To 09/24/2023

Totals: Time: 08:27:02 - 🦅Imperial: 63.27 mi - Metric: 101.81 km

Thanks all!  It was perfect all the way.  Very few negative thoughts.  Laid a good base in the first half then progressively ramped up the pace all the way to the finish.  It started getting warm in the second half - I could see that coming and grabbed a water every time I could, had a mouthful and put the rest over my head.  It is a beautiful day to go to the pub now.

 

Official time is 1:26:49.

5km: 18:40 9/23 │ 10km: 39:10 8/23 │ HM: 1:26:49 9/23 │ M: 3:34:49 6/23

 

Upcoming Races:

Christchurch Marathon April 21, 2024

Looking forward to you blowing away that marathon PB.

 

MMerkle - Remember that time that Kipchoge, Bekele and Gebrselassie ran a 50 mile race?
Right!

If you care about going faster over 10k a 50 miler race is the last thing you want to do.

 

Arguably, those runners are doing ultra training in disguise. As you stated yourself, Keen is doing elite training, but he was training for an ultra. It's not about running the long-distance race. As WCRunner stated (btw, great to see your update, WC, I hope you're able to get back to thinking about training soon), it's about training for a long-distance race, and pushing beyond limits in that race (as long as there's no injury) that makes you a better, more efficient runner. And there's a huge mental boost from running an ultra, and then a 5 or 10k, that those elite athletes probably don't need.

Mmerkle, I will say that if you want to get faster in the 10k before December, I don't want to argue either way, because I wouldn't want to take responsibility. But it has been my experience that one can recover from an ultra in 3-weeks to a month and then be ready to smash the shorter distance running.  Also, coming from strong marathon training and a PB, you're already halfway there to good ultra training. But you may want to get more comfortable with slower runs, as well.