Did my second running race of the season this afternoon. It was very warm and sunny, and dusty (the drought has been lasting for quite some time now). 14,4 (or 14,6 according to some sources) km, 3 laps. One third or maybe a little more was on paths.
I was uncertain about my participation, I've been struggling with painful knees since Christmas holidays, and I've barely been able to train for three weeks now (I've cycled a lot instead - well, "a lot" is relative).
I finished 158th (on 320+), 1h08m35s. I didn't feel well. It's like I have no stamina, my heartbeat was immediately high during the warm up (I did one lap to warm up, might have been too much ?), I couldn't increase the pace, etc. Very weird, although it's become common for a couple of weeks on the bike. Should have tried drinking some red bull or something.
Overall I managed to do 12,7 or 12,8 km/h. People who finished around me at the first race finished like 4 or 5 minutes ahead, more or less around the 115th position.
It's no big deal though, the overall classification is done on the 5 best results (out of 10 races), and anyway, I'm such a nobody that it doesn't really matter. I'm more concerned with that sort of apathy.
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Not three laps of 14,6 km each, I'm not on tic-tacs, d'oh. 14,6 km divided in 3 laps.
My first race was much better, though I still had plenty of room for improvement.
I'm on a lot of non-ssteroidian anti-inflammatory pills though. Either that, either I can't run. And it feels a bit like doping, even though Voltarene is not forbidden.
I'm in a foreign country, during a busy time of work....except at this moment my work consists of
1. Start Batch process
2. Wait forever for it to finish
3. Analyse results and make changes as needed
4. return to step 1
The batch takes a looooooong time to run and needs to be run many many times.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that at this moment I'm being paid to watch "American History X" while juggling cellphones
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
14km in 1 hour is pretty good, I did 8km in 40 minutes once so you should be happy. Maybe next race will go better.
Edited by valverde321 on 21-05-2011 19:18
valverde321 wrote:
14km in 1 hour is pretty good, I did 8km in 40 minutes once so you should be happy. Maybe next race will go better.
Well I'm not aiming for average, I guess I was born with some talent for endurance sports. Not enough to make a pro in anything, sadly.
I'm aiming for less than 40 minutes on a 10 km race as soon as possible. But that'll require some working knees. I'm not going anywhere with the current ones.
@isso² : are you actually working on a Saturday evening ?
@Aquarius - that's not too bad a time if you felt like you did. Was it a flat course?
@issoisso - I believe what you do no longer qualifies as a real job
I'm also not a fan of American History X. I feel it is about as subtle as a fist to the face when trying to get over the concept that racism is bad.
Aquarius wrote:
@isso² : are you actually working on a Saturday evening ?
Important project and I'm abroad specifically to work on it. Yesterday I was in till 1 a.m. Sucks.
Crommy wrote:
@issoisso - I believe what you do no longer qualifies as a real job
I'm also not a fan of American History X. I feel it is about as subtle as a fist to the face when trying to get over the concept that racism is bad.
I was going to disagree on both counts, but then again:
- Today I watched all three mad max movies
- This one is less subtle by comparison.
Yes, I'm slowly watching all the cult and classic movies and shows I never watched as well as all of IMDB's top 250.
Earlier this week I went through every episode of *air quotes* "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"
Edited by issoisso on 21-05-2011 19:49
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@Crommy : this is what it looked like, according to bikely , but it doesn't really reflect the race I think. There was a huge (10 % or so) climb, 400 m long, near the end. Overall it was quite difficult.
@Aquarius - putting all those conditions together, not too bad a time. But it's always annoying when you don't run, even if there's loads of explanations as to why you couldn't have done better
I had a 10km race last Sunday, where I was aiming for a sub 40 minute time (my p.b. is 38:09, that was set in 2007, I'm trying to be able to train for long enough without illness/injury to actually beat that), and was going great up until 5km, was maybe even looking at beating my pb, when my body decided it didn't like the heat anymore, and decided to just massively overheat (it's a weird sensation, I can't really describe it). Still managed 42:48, but very annoyed too
I'm still bored at work and I haven't had dinner yet
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
14,6 km divided in 3 laps. 
