Robbie-T @ Egg Nog Jog #9 - pic link added
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:45 pm
talk about a puss!
http://photos.mysportsshooter.com/eventgallery/17741/72/
As for the last few years my goal has been to dip below 40min on this course. This year I was feeling pretty good, the weather was good, not muddy, icy, snowy or slushy like usual, a bit of wind but not bad, as good as you can expect really. I took off fast but comfortable, not pushing too hard down the hill, I was in 6th position at the mile, 5:21 for the first mile. Almost to 3k and just before we turned into the rolling hills I past one guy that took off too quick for himself. At this point the guys in front were long gone and I was on my own except for one guy behind me, that eventually caught up. We ran together for a while and I tried to keep pushing hard. As we went up the 'big hill' I started to fall behind, as we crested I felt I didn't recover fast enough and started to lose my edge for a while. At this point I was all alone for the rest of the race, behind me I couldn't see anyone, ahead only this one guy so I used him as motivation. You can totally see by the results how spread out the top 7 guys were.
Fast forward to the finish, 41:03 that is my second fastest time for this race so not so bad really, and 6th overall, 1st in my age group.
I'd like to think that if there were a few more guys about my speed there I could of had a good chance for a PB if not a sub 40. Well now I still have this goal to work towards.
The 10k split was exactly the same split as my fastest time (40:43). Which I got sprinting to chase down another guy. I had no one to sprint hard for this year.
5:20 first mile, 38:30 through 10k
splits
3:21
3:25
3:55
3:53
3:51
4:29
4:10
3:58
3:50
3:40
3:21 pace for last 800m
http://photos.mysportsshooter.com/eventgallery/17741/72/
As for the last few years my goal has been to dip below 40min on this course. This year I was feeling pretty good, the weather was good, not muddy, icy, snowy or slushy like usual, a bit of wind but not bad, as good as you can expect really. I took off fast but comfortable, not pushing too hard down the hill, I was in 6th position at the mile, 5:21 for the first mile. Almost to 3k and just before we turned into the rolling hills I past one guy that took off too quick for himself. At this point the guys in front were long gone and I was on my own except for one guy behind me, that eventually caught up. We ran together for a while and I tried to keep pushing hard. As we went up the 'big hill' I started to fall behind, as we crested I felt I didn't recover fast enough and started to lose my edge for a while. At this point I was all alone for the rest of the race, behind me I couldn't see anyone, ahead only this one guy so I used him as motivation. You can totally see by the results how spread out the top 7 guys were.
Fast forward to the finish, 41:03 that is my second fastest time for this race so not so bad really, and 6th overall, 1st in my age group.
I'd like to think that if there were a few more guys about my speed there I could of had a good chance for a PB if not a sub 40. Well now I still have this goal to work towards.
The 10k split was exactly the same split as my fastest time (40:43). Which I got sprinting to chase down another guy. I had no one to sprint hard for this year.
5:20 first mile, 38:30 through 10k
splits
3:21
3:25
3:55
3:53
3:51
4:29
4:10
3:58
3:50
3:40
3:21 pace for last 800m
