It was time for a long run at night and something with lots of heaps of hills. I spent yesterday afternoon mapping out my run trying to pick lots of steep hills and making it a round trip not an out and back type run. It wasn't till about 6:45pm before I headed off and at 3k I noticed I was at 4:45 pace for the first 3k. "Slow down it's a long run" I had to tell myself. As I hit 6k the first hill came into view and although I would rather run on a flat coarse, hills are my next favorite. By the time I hit 23k I was over the last hill, it seemed easier than some of the others even with a sharp rise at the end. A quick look at overall pace 5:30, nice. I had taken 2 gels and my fuel belt that holds 4 bottles (2 water,2 gatorpowersports type aid) and had sipped as I went but at 24k I was out of fluids and 1 gel left. The next few k's were terrible my mouth got dry and with 2k to go I found a servo tap and drank about a litre of water. I ran another k and walked the last as my warm down.
I was happy with that effort 29k at 5:36 pace.
A record number of cars beeping at me, I counted at least 10 on the way out and more on the way home. Who are these people ?
Take care
Monday, November 3, 2008
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2 comments:
Cars beeping ... you didn't forget to put your shorts on did you ;)
Oh crap ! I knew I forgot something!
Hey Tesso, see you in a few weeks (k2d)
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