Forums >Racing>The Waltons aka Advanced Half Marathon Training Thread - 2022 edition
Mark - I figured the weather must have been slightly better, a distinct dropping off of the complaining lately!
Either it's better or I've just gotten used to it.
It was admittedly warm enough this morning to prompt me to think once again that the Auckland Marathon organisers really aren't setting themselves up for a great day next Sunday, assuming it goes ahead. Today, it was around 20C and 90% humidity at 7am. Bearing in mind the full starts at 6am, there will still be plenty of experienced runners out there at 10am and a lot more inexperienced ones. By that time there's nowhere to hide even if overnight temps are below average. There's a chance it could be worse than that too, I vividly remember Orewa Half in early Feb 2018 which was 23C and 99% humidity at race start. Unfortunately I think it's going to be a very busy day for the ambulances with less experienced runners copping summer heat at the tail end of a marathon and I'm a little worried that's what the media will jump on.
This is the same media that never wrote a single thing about any running event in Auckland other than Auckland Marathon or Round the Bays, until someone copped some sort of heat illness at Omaha in 2017 and had to leave in an ambulance (despite a generous number of water stops and multiple reminders from the race organisers to stay hydrated!).
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"
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Yep, potential for complete carnage. Hopefully there's a strong push to remind people about hydrating. And even pushing for people to forget their goals this time round. It may work on some of the less experienced runners. I was worried when Melbourne scheduled for mid-December but they got lucky with a day almost as good as possible for summer.
Of course, it's still 12 days away and after the royal wedding, the red light could happen any time.
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
Melbourne had an incredible day for a December marathon! It would have been awful on a day that peaks at 40 Celsius.
Auckland will be rough. If it is warm then ALL runners need to change their goal time.
Wellington round the bays is mid February (max distance is a half) and that has substantially different times depending on the temperature year to year. And that is February, not January, and is less humid than Auckland.
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
I won't be surprised if this year has the slowest winning time in the past decade (or more). No international field, summer temperatures and likely humidity. Unless someone like Daniel Jones pulls something out of the bag, I think the mens winner will be closer to 2:30 than 2:20, and the womens winner probably circa 2:50. Most of the elites are likely to be more focused on Christchurch in early April.
I didn't realize the Auckland marathon is on soon. I guess it was rescheduled because of covid.
That could be a nightmare 😳. I ran in 28c today and it sucked.
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 "
The last five years of Wellington Round the Bays, men's half winner. I know that 2018 was hot, and the times show. And the heat effect is exponential with the distance of the race, so a marathon is much worse.
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Intl. correspondent
DW - Fingers crossed that ART specialist found a path to the solution.
RP - to be honest I’m not making any plans at the moment. I just want to be able to run 30 miles per week and be healthy. Once I get there I’ll reevaluate.
That should at least allow me to train for the mile. Seeing as I ran my mile time trial at 5k PR pace, there's quite a bit of fitness to be gained.
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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Checking in then I'll get to reading the (huge) backlog. I started my week well, got 25 miles in but RPE was really really high. Took the weekend off and saw a doctor yesterday. I have walking Pnumonia and am on a z-pak. I won't run well but at least those kick in pretty quick and I can get some short runs in this week. Not the start of the year that I wanted but fighting my way through it wasn't working.
1600 - 5:23 (2018), 5k - 19:33 (2018), 10k - 41:20 (2021), half - 1:38:57 (2018), Marathon - 3:37:17 (2018)
Wind is not my friend.
Z - Heal up! Sorry to hear about the pneumonia but I know those Z-packs can kick in quickly!
Keen - Great week! What's the typical mileage like for you? A week of 57 is still above what I can do comfortably and I consider that pretty solid!
Always throws me off catching up on the conversation and see all the heat and humidity talk. Got in my 45 minutes last night in the 15 degree windchill. Granted, it's not crazy cold but still cold enough to bundle up a bit. Not sure if I miss the Summer weather yet though...
"Current" PRs
5K - 18:00 (4/19) | HM - 1:19:28 (4/22)
Next Race: A 5K of some sort (Goal: Sub 17:30)
My left Achilles has started getting sore near the end of runs too, but using a Strassburg sock helped some. I’m still feeling strong on my easy/steady park runs, perhaps because of cool weather and some afternoon runs, and I made it to 10 miles on Thursday.
Kudos James. You've been a model of consistency despite ongoing issues.
Watson couple nice longer runs in there!
Fred, congrats on getting another race in with your son. Good job on the solo 5k too! Given all the Kiwi's in this thread you could probably have PRd by running 3.05,
Flavio I hope your back is well. Your legs will bounce back quickly.
Steve good week! Lots of nice long intervals. =)
DW Glad the ART is helping. Warning: IME, ART feels great for a few days but wears off really quickly.
Oakley what ultra are you training for with that 4 hour run?? yowza! p.s. to you and RP I did a Goggins last year ... and it just wasn't that difficult and I didn't find it very useful (but I also didn't race an ultra so it mostly just set my other running back).
RP 50 mile weeks seem short for you now and your easy pace has dropped. What's being a teenager like ? all I get from mine is tons of sarcasm.
arunnerd I see someone is channeling their inner Yogi Berra!!
cc4life07 I love that other people plan their runs by time rather than distance. Nice week.
Keen Racing is absolutely a Type II fun. That's some really low mileage.
I've always trained by mileage growing up but changed my prospective after I started coaching some. Telling high schoolers to run 4 miles for practice tends to result in them sprinting to get it done which defeats the purpose of easy runs. After telling them to run 35 - 40 minutes instead, they tend to be closer to the appropriate pace. Granted, sometimes there's a little sandbagging but majority of time, it ends up okay. I also don't feel pressure to hit a distance if my legs are too tired one day.
Sorry to hear that, I remember you mentioned the sinus symptoms for a few weeks now. I have many of the symptoms of this walking pneumonia since October last year. From time to time I will suddenly become weak, I have those weird chills especially on the evenings, and I have a constant sore throat. I guess it's time to go see a doctor to check up how my lungs are doing.
It's likely not that, my sp02 is above 98%, but I might have some sort of condition going on.
Cobra Commander Keen
CC4 - I've averaged 68mpw for more than a 2 years now. Once I'm back into the meat of training that'll be 80+mpw.
Zebano - Sorry to hear about the pneumonia. Hopefully those antibiotics clear it out of your system quickly. Those things always do tank my running for a couple weeks when I take them. Well, except for those few days last month when I was on a steroid as well...
Flavio - Definitely go get those lungs checked on! Good thing you like those super-short, anaerobic efforts.
5k: 17:58 11/22 │ 10k: 37:55 9/21 │ HM: 1:23:22 4/22 │ M: 2:56:05 12/22
Upcoming Races:
OKC Memorial 5k - April 27
Bun Run 5k - May 4
Flavio is this all related to the covid ?
Zeb that sounds nasty. You wouldn't want to get covid on top of that.
Cc4 yeah it cycles around and around the weather complaining too hot for us too cold for you guys etc.
My winter is mild and the best running season.
Tried a 6k tempo today averaged 4.15/km for the fast bit. Got some work to do.
Keen - I fully expect you to be running 200 miles per week by next month heh
Piwi - no, I have these symptoms on and off since around October last year. Remember how every time I have cold symptoms I can't just run through it, it's not your typical head cold as it wears me down quite a bit.
But then I get better and forget about it for like 3 or 4 months until it starts again.