Over 50 PB for Half M
Yesterday was the Qld Half Marathon at Doomben and after the close call at the Twilight Half in April, I can now claim a new Over 50 PB with my time of 1:29.34.
I started out a little quickly with 4:04 and a 4:05 for the first two Ks but after that settled down into target pace of 4:15. Slowed a little in the 19th and 20th K to 4:20 but managed to pick it up and come home strongly for a 4:11 last K.
Even for a Brisbane winter's day it was very mild conditions and the humidity at 97% made conditions a little uncomfortable in the later stages of the race.
It was good to catch up with everyone including Rob who I hadn't seen for ages.
Training over the last months has mostly been positive. The biggest problem was the big rain we had a few weeks ago which again flooded under our house. And it was only a month since the new carpet was laid from the last flooding. So that day we spent a long time soaking up the excess water by stomping on towels. For some reason which I still can't fathom this left me with really really sore upper legs. It was as if I had run two marathons. I could hardly walk the next day and it was another three days before I thought it was wise to go for a run. Apart from that I am managing 90 -100 k a week including one tempo run.
Have entered for the Half at Gold Coast but now the Brisbane Marathon on August 23rd is my main race goal. 11 weeks to go!
I started out a little quickly with 4:04 and a 4:05 for the first two Ks but after that settled down into target pace of 4:15. Slowed a little in the 19th and 20th K to 4:20 but managed to pick it up and come home strongly for a 4:11 last K.
Even for a Brisbane winter's day it was very mild conditions and the humidity at 97% made conditions a little uncomfortable in the later stages of the race.
It was good to catch up with everyone including Rob who I hadn't seen for ages.
Training over the last months has mostly been positive. The biggest problem was the big rain we had a few weeks ago which again flooded under our house. And it was only a month since the new carpet was laid from the last flooding. So that day we spent a long time soaking up the excess water by stomping on towels. For some reason which I still can't fathom this left me with really really sore upper legs. It was as if I had run two marathons. I could hardly walk the next day and it was another three days before I thought it was wise to go for a run. Apart from that I am managing 90 -100 k a week including one tempo run.
Have entered for the Half at Gold Coast but now the Brisbane Marathon on August 23rd is my main race goal. 11 weeks to go!
posted by Robert Song @ 12:28 pm
4 Comments:
At Tue June 09, 02:37:00 pm AEST,
Ewen said…
Excellent race Robert Song - by my calculations that's worth around 1:15:50 as a whipper snapper.
Thanks for the tip - I'll introduce some "towel stomping" in my next 6' preparation to build up the quads ;)
Thanks for your comment about Hosaka - I think his training is not that far removed from Lydiard - the pace of his intervals are quite moderate (for him) - even the 3:20 km is barely faster than his 10k race pace. I don't know that he has that much room for improvement - his marathon PB is apparently equivalent to 2:07:XX for an open-age runner.
At Tue June 09, 06:08:00 pm AEST,
Samurai Running said…
You must be happy to be back under 1:30:00 for the half. 1:15:50 age graded is something else!
Now your kids are going to have to beat that time or forever live in your shadow.
Is there anything worse than wet carpet?
At Wed June 10, 05:53:00 pm AEST,
Unknown said…
Nice run! Bodes well for the full in August.
Ick, wet carpet, bugger. Not much worse than that.
At Sun June 14, 06:10:00 pm AEST,
Rob said…
It was good to catch up Graham. Congratulations again, on such an excellent run. GC will probably see you improve on that time.
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