My knee has been bothering me all week (since last Sunday's 5K), but I did the Navy 10K anyways..
I got a somebody to cover for me for little but at work, and squeezed in another race during a coffee break.
Things were ok. I didn't start out too fast, (worried about my knee) and was on pace for a PB for only the first 3K. The long incline bothered my knee a little. By the time 5K rolled around, I decided a PB could be done, but I wasn't willing to trash my knee to do it. And I had a lack of motivation due to this as well.
But, I did a sprint in the last 200m to try to crack 50 minute mark.
49:54, oh well, my worse 10K, I believe. I even did better with the broken rib last year.
Well, yesterday (today actually) is history. I think I will take a camera with me on the run of Quebec City.
Navy 10K - Hmmmph
Navy 10K - Hmmmph
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...nice coffee break run.....add an espresso to that break and maybe it woulda been a PB!!!!
Rest for a bit....
B
Rest for a bit....
B
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Dang! I didn't realize the 10k was this weekend. I would have come up to cheer you on. Good job on saving your knee.
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Good job, Q - iffy knee and all! I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to threadjack to put in a review instead of starting a new thread about the same event.
Overall, it was a pretty good event:
Pluses: relatively flat course by Halifax standards, good course marshalling, well-placed water stations, low cost, good breakfast afterwards, friendly organizers and volunteers at every part of the race.
Minuses: race kit pickup was fairly disorganized (and only available on race day), no bag check (or advance notice of where you could stash your stuff). Not a dealbreaker, but it really bothered me because I didn't have a car to lock things in or a lock to put on a locker.
All in all, I would run it again next year, especially since I took 1:30 off of my 10k PB.
Overall, it was a pretty good event:
Pluses: relatively flat course by Halifax standards, good course marshalling, well-placed water stations, low cost, good breakfast afterwards, friendly organizers and volunteers at every part of the race.
Minuses: race kit pickup was fairly disorganized (and only available on race day), no bag check (or advance notice of where you could stash your stuff). Not a dealbreaker, but it really bothered me because I didn't have a car to lock things in or a lock to put on a locker.
All in all, I would run it again next year, especially since I took 1:30 off of my 10k PB.
Coming up in 2008:
Blue Nose 1/2 May 18 (2:33:04)
Lunenburg Heritage 5K & Muffin Festival (31:21)
HBC Run for Canada 10k July 1 (1:09)
Support the Troops Navy 10k August 17 (1:07)
Valley Harvest 1/2 October 12
Santa Shuffle 5K December 6
Blue Nose 1/2 May 18 (2:33:04)
Lunenburg Heritage 5K & Muffin Festival (31:21)
HBC Run for Canada 10k July 1 (1:09)
Support the Troops Navy 10k August 17 (1:07)
Valley Harvest 1/2 October 12
Santa Shuffle 5K December 6
HaliGal wrote:Good job, Q - iffy knee and all! I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to threadjack to put in a review instead of starting a new thread about the same event.
Overall, it was a pretty good event:
Pluses: relatively flat course by Halifax standards, good course marshalling, well-placed water stations, low cost, good breakfast afterwards, friendly organizers and volunteers at every part of the race.
Minuses: race kit pickup was fairly disorganized (and only available on race day), no bag check (or advance notice of where you could stash your stuff). Not a dealbreaker, but it really bothered me because I didn't have a car to lock things in or a lock to put on a locker.
All in all, I would run it again next year, especially since I took 1:30 off of my 10k PB.
In previous years they used to have a Sat. kit pick-up at the Northend Beverage Room before it burnt down. (Where the empty lot is next to the Needs store. Another reason to cry for a pub burning down!
Good job on getting a big PB Haligal.
BTW, did you see the Seussapallosa Halifax Meet and Greet Thread in the M&G section. It looks like Tuesday. You are more than welcome and encouraged to come.
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children." - John James Audubon
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'." - Paddy Lennox
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast!" - author unknown
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'." - Paddy Lennox
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast!" - author unknown
We want you finishing upright and smiling in QC city B!! Good chance you were reasonable for this 10K race!! Better get a PW than ruining your knee!! See you soon!
Sonia
7 marathons (PB 5:01)
31 halfs (PB 2:10)
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The plan for 2014: 10K des glaces & Apocalypse 5K
2015: No plan at all!
7 marathons (PB 5:01)
31 halfs (PB 2:10)
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The plan for 2014: 10K des glaces & Apocalypse 5K
2015: No plan at all!
Dr. Sonia wrote:We want you finishing upright and smiling in QC city B!! Good chance you were reasonable for this 10K race!! Better get a PW than ruining your knee!! See you soon!
UGH I hate to see PW. I just do.
But it will be nice to see you!
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Cracking 50 is always nice. Well done.
Lots of nice scenery in QC, but I don't know about schlepping a camera on the course; but then that's not my style.
It may be your style. Enjoy the Marathon des Deux Rives and romping about the second-oldest city in Canada (St. John's is no. 1, I believe...)
If you like it enough to do it again, Sanders and I will join you next year...
Lots of nice scenery in QC, but I don't know about schlepping a camera on the course; but then that's not my style.
It may be your style. Enjoy the Marathon des Deux Rives and romping about the second-oldest city in Canada (St. John's is no. 1, I believe...)
If you like it enough to do it again, Sanders and I will join you next year...
Hermes wrote:Cracking 50 is always nice. Well done.
Lots of nice scenery in QC, but I don't know about schlepping a camera on the course; but then that's not my style.
It may be your style. Enjoy the Marathon des Deux Rives and romping about the second-oldest city in Canada (St. John's is no. 1, I believe...)
If you like it enough to do it again, Sanders and I will join you next year...
Oh, it's not a question of liking it enough.
I still have quite a few provinces to do before I collect the whole set.
Bettina Peterson: "Where're you headed?"
Chuck Noland: "Well, I was just about to figure that out."
Chuck Noland: "Well, I was just about to figure that out."
Q wrote:Hermes wrote:Cracking 50 is always nice. Well done.
Lots of nice scenery in QC, but I don't know about schlepping a camera on the course; but then that's not my style.
It may be your style. Enjoy the Marathon des Deux Rives and romping about the second-oldest city in Canada (St. John's is no. 1, I believe...)
If you like it enough to do it again, Sanders and I will join you next year...
Oh, it's not a question of liking it enough.
I still have quite a few provinces to do before I collect the whole set.
just completed my provinces set on the weekend! and visited both the oldest and second oldest cities. forgot to run while there though - probably the incessant downpour in both places...
territories will take another trip!
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