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Might not be able to make Portland 3 Bays Marathon Spoke to my wife earlier in the week about a few days at Portland on the weekend of 30/10/05 so as I can run the marathon on the Sunday. Well, apparently we have a family function to attend on the Saturday night at Seymour, which means I'd cop a lot of flack if I was to run the marathon. My experience with some of our family functions is that some of them are cancelled at the last minute. So I'm still training as if I'm running the marathon that Sunday anyway. Got to do something with my time. 30 km Training Run Erratic heart rate right from the very start, though didn't feel tired. About the same time then a slight pain in my left ankle, though that didn't last long and didn't cause any further problems. During the first 10 km stomach uneasiness, just had to find a toilet, which I did at the 10 km mark. Diarrhea no less (that will teach me to have hot Mexican pizza the night before a long run). I'm wondering whether this (diarrhea) was the cause of the erratic heart rate as it settled down after this. Well the run was from home to Werribee River and return. Total distance on my Garmin Forerunner 30.75 km for a time of 2:43:14 which equates to a pace of 5:19 mins/km. During run consumed PB Gel every 30 mins, took 5 packets out with me and water. Consumed all of them. Checked weight on return, weighed in at 77.2 kg a loss of 2.5 kg. Weight on first getting out of bed was 79.7 kg. This equates to 3.14% fluid loss (not sure if this is acceptable or not). This is probably higher than it should be as I did have that toilet stop. | ||
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Ok, my Melbourne Marathon training didn't go to plan due to the flu
about 6 weeks prior, lasting about 2 weeks. As a result I trained for
and ran the half marathon. Well the half was on Sunday just gone
(9/10/05) but I still want to run a marathon. I'm feeling half-way
trained for a marathon. The Portland 3 Bays Marathon is on 30/10/05, three weeks away. I've got two weekends where I can run some long (30 km) runs. Midweek running will be shorter runs. I'm a bit concerned that maybe, just maybe, I've run out of time. So my plan is this, run the long runs as mentioned above and at the last minute (week before - just after the second 30 km run) make the decision whether to run the marathon or not. Seems like a good plan to me. | ||
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Well the day arrived. I was up at 5.30
am eating 3 pieces of toast (apricot jam), glass of orange juice and
two multi-vitamin tablets. When picking up my race kit on Friday from
Melbourne Town Hall I purchased a whole box of PB sports gels but have
never used them in my training. I considered maybe taking one prior to
the run and during, then common sense took over, I didn't. Next week
though I'll try them out. My running mate and his wife picked me up about 6.25 am. We had one stop to make at the Arts Centre to pick someone else up and then to Rickets Point. We got there about 7.30 am and it was bloody cold. We parked about 300 meters (maybe more) away from the start. We stayed at the car, in track-suits, did some stretching and then back in the car; as I said, "It was cold". About 10 minutes to the start, off with the track-suits and a slow jog to the start, or as close as we could get as it was packed. The 'cold' was no longer an issue. The race started though I didn't hear the siren or gun, I just saw the pack in front surging forward. I didn't start my stopwatch straight away, I wanted to start it on crossing the start line. Well, I stuffed that up, completely missed it. It wasn't that obvious where the start line was, too many runners. I guestimated that I had run about 400 metres before setting the stopwatch on my Garmin Forerunner 301 (GPS gadget). I soon got into my stride and was running around 4:30 pace from about the 2nd km onwards. Very hard to get to pace for the first km due to the number of runners. About the 16 km mark I had planned to up the ante somewhat but it was also at this point that it was becoming more of an effort. I was starting to feel my calfs tighten. I couldn't up the ante but at the same time I was not going to slow down which I didn't. At the 20 km point, running up St. Kilda Road the finish line was in sight and then put a bit of a spurt on. Well I went through at 1 hr 36 min and some seconds. I'm reasonably happy with this. I had set two goals, first to run a sub 5 min pace and second to run less than 100 mins. My third goal was to break 90 mins but unfortunately this wasn't to be. Update : Official Time : 1:36:58 Overall place 427 of 2823 and 24th in my age group (45-49) | ||
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