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Originally Posted by Alan T
A couple of big things for me this week...
Right now it looks like on my Wednesday easy run, I should pass 2000 miles recorded on Strava. It depends on how much I end up running during today's track workout though. I could end up actually passing 2000 miles on my Thursday tempo run instead though.
Also this weekend is my goal Half-marathon that I've been training for this spring. I'm wanting to break my Personal record from last fall for a half but right now am not feeling super confident about that. My last two week long runs have been a little short of horrible. I'm suffering a bit with the sudden heat change the last few weeks here. Running in 85-90 degree heat with direct sunlight and 90+% humidity has been rough for me to get re-acclimated to so far. Luckily the Half marathon is at 7am, so it might only be in the 70s at that time I hope..
The other issue is this course is about 4 times more hilly than my previous half personal record course was:
There seriously is very little flat parts in the entire course, and the hill at mile 3 is about a 5% overall grade, but the first half of it is closer to 7-9% grade climb.
I'll have all of three of my kids there to cheer me on for Father's day though, the first time that all of them have been there to watch me in a half before. |
Congrats ont the milestone but dang, that's a harsh course! You sure that spike is "only" 7-9%? Looks almost like 15-20%
The scale is kinda wonky though. That spike is 80-90 feet up but over half a mile... Did I get this right?
You plan on letting it all out on the long downhills to make up time?
Sounds like a sweet good time when you got your loved ones cheering for you on race day. And on Father's Day no less! Have fun!
Sadly, I'll be doing me second race in a row without my cheer team. This Sunday's race is the craziest of my races, a 13.5K romp through the staircases of the Old Quebec City. Some 1925 steps (1277 going up, 648 going down) and plenty of running around town. This is gonna be rough. No clue about time or pacing other than I'll try to keep my running pace as close to my 10 or 15K pace, but the stairs might throw a wrench into that plan as fatigue wears the legs down toward the end... The last 2 km might be a challenge since I the last big staircase is 309 steps going up and happens with 2 km to go...
No cheer team for me because my wife's doing four hip hop dance shows with her school and my youngest son has a swimming meet all weekend long. My race start is 8am and my son's swimming meet is at 1pm so I'll come back home, shower and will head out with him to the pool before attending my wife's last show of the weekend on Sunday night. This'll be a pretty full Father's Day for me...
As for Athlinks, as I said in my dynasty thread, it doesn't track races in Canada but most races I'm going to seem to use the same timing chip provider, Sportstats that have a searchable database so I can track "rivals" with whom I can sorta compare my times...
FM