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Good luck Keen.
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
Hot Weather Complainer
The tracking says he's finished in 5:09.16 obviously with several hours missing in the middle where he must have been getting medical assistance. It then looks like he's walked very gingerly to the finish. Whatever happened, well done on the finish. I know how heartbreaking it is when all the hard work doesn't pay off due to conditions, injury or sheer bad luck.
Hopefully it's nothing major that's happened and you can get back on the horse soon CK.
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
Hope everything is okay for Keen. Nice job finishing despite whatever happened.
800m: 2:20.3 (2015) | 1 Mile: 5:13 (2016) | 5K: 18:32 (2010) | 10km: 39:55 (2012) | HM: 1:28 (2013)
RIP Milkman
Ugh this doesn't sound good. Sorry Keen.
5K: 16:37 (11/20) | 10K: 34:49 (10/19) | HM: 1:14:57 (5/22) | FM: 2:36:31 (12/19)
Problem Child
Finished. Must have walked. Hope it isn’t serious injury and he can bounce back. I was looking forward to being excited about running Boston with this guy in 2021 today.
Many of us aren't sure what the hell point you are trying to make and no matter how we guess, it always seems to be something else. Which usually means a person is doing it on purpose.
VDOT 53.37
5k18:xx | Marathon 2:55:22
3 months til Masters
Looks like we will need to send a case of beer for medical reasons to Keen.
James- Way to stick to the base building. It too is my life these days.
Mark- What pace did you do the 800's at?
my week
Mon: 5.03 miles plus striders in the morning and then 8.08 miles in the afternoon. easy
Tues: 8.59 mile work out...2 mile WU, 6x.5 miles @ 5:52 pace with .25 recovery, 2.1 mile cool down
Wed: 11.03 miles easy
Thursday: striders+ 10.3 miles easy
Fri: 6.74 miles over lunch break and 9.09 miles at night
Sat; 15 .03 miles @6:46 average with last mile 6:25. First 14 miles was on snow covered ice, last mile on clean pavement. Quite of few times my cadence was up over 190 cause I had to take small steps.
Sun:8.6 on the treadmill...i'll get another 3.4 in tonight
~87 miles
2023 Goals
Marathon Sub 2:37 (CIM) 2:41:18
10k Sub 35:00 (Victory 10k 34:19)
5k Sub 16:00 (Hot Dash 5k in March (16:48), Brian Kraft in May (16:20), Twilight 5000 in July and August (16:20/16:25 Both heat index 102-103F)
Sub 1:16 Half Marathon City of Lakes Half Marathon 1:15:47)
Sub 56:30 in 10 mile (Twin Cities 10 mile, Canceled due to weather, 56:35 as a workout)
2024 Goals
Sub 2:37 Marathon
Sub 1:15 Half
Sub 34 10k
Sub 16 5k
On the bright side, if Keen did manage to walk to the finish I guess we can be hopeful it was just a really bad blow-up and not a serious injury.
There was an old TV ad ifor DB beer n New Zealand which coined the saying 'That man deserves a DB'. I'm not sure I'd actually inflict a case of DB on Keen but I'm happy to chip in towards a decent case of beer.
DPS - nice week, you're brave chancing it on the ice! Mind you if it was fresh air or another treadmill session, I can see why. I wasn't really clocking my pace on the 800's, with 10 reps it's kind of just about getting through the work, I'd guess most of the reps were high 2:30's with the faster ones (5, 9, 10) maybe just squeaking under 2:30.
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
"CONSISTENCY IS KING"
Looks from his comment on Strava that it was a blow up rather than an injury, so that's one positive I guess. Although I'm sure it was absolute hell...that feeling when each km gets slower so you abandon targets is awful but not as bad as when you realise it's actually even worse than that and you need a lie down.
That's got to be the worst heat blow out I've seen. The last ~ 11km / 7 miles he just had to walk.
Well this makes me excited for my marathon....in late june....**face palm**
The marathon is an awful beast, and when it goes bad, it goes spectacularly bad.
I said this in my race report, but when the heat got to me in Boston, it was the most miserable feeling I’ve had. I think those last 3 miles, plus for about 30 minutes post race, I was in a dark place, and I don’t mean that lightly. One of those were you question everything you value that you were willing to put yourself through that and waste hundreds of hours just jogging around to train. And that was with a PR. The fact that Keen is talking about looking up another marathon already is so uplifting and he’s a better person that I would be after that kind of blow up. I’m just as proud of him for that as I would be for a PR for him.
CK - Sorry to hear your race did not go as you had hoped.
JMac - Finally read your report, nice.
Mostly a recovery week for me after my HM on Sunday.
Monday - 20 minutes exercise bike plus some stretching
Tuesday - 6 miles easy
Wednesday - 5 miles easy
Thursday - 4 miles TM, last 1.5 walking at 7-11% grade
Friday - rest
Saturday - 8miles trails
Sunday - 16 mile roads, with some T and M pace. Kicked off my 12 week plan for LA marathon.
Heat got to me in Las Vegas at Revel. I’ve never run one with sickness, thankfully, so it sounds like he can heal up with some rest.
Keen sorry it didn't go as planned kudos for finishing! it must have been brutal conditions. keep pushing forward!
DPS Paul nice weeks
James nice week Iknow what you mean Standing just kills my knees and feet.
Marco nice to hear from you hope things calm down a bit so you can get back to running.
For me I had another good week in terms of steady mileage, nothing fancy just slow running.
Mon off
Tue 4.5
Wed 4.2
Thur 9.1
Fri 4.5
Sat 17.1 4 strides
Sun 6.1
Total 45.8
PR's
1m 5:38 (2018)
5k 19:59 (2019)
HM 1:33:56 (2018)
FM 3:23:07 (2018)
Intl. correspondent
Keen - I'm keen to hear your race report. You took 29 minutes to cover km 37, and even the other kms were like 12 and 16 minutes. I'm curious of what happened there, it sounds really bad.
You guys know I've been there myself with close to 5h marathon, being passed by other people walking, so I definitely know the feeling and that's why I say that if you only fade in the marathon pace you have only been to the first hell, there are 6 other hells that are exponentially worse. I can see Keen visited one layer below the one I faced twice in 2010.
PRs: 1500 4:54.1 2019 - 5K 17:53 2023 - 10K 37:55 2023 - HM 1:21:59 2021
Up next: some 800m race (or time trials) / Also place in the top 20% in a trail race
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