Sunday, July 30, 2017
(yes, this post is retconned)
My training plan called for 20km this weekend, which would mean ~23km door-to-door.
Instead, I decided to sign up for the Beaches Jazz Run half marathon. If I'm doing the distance, I may as well get myself a shiny bit of bling while I'm at it.
Unfortunately, the map looks like shit because I ran into some unexpected technology issues on the day ... my phone's GPS decided to make itself useless.
I also thought it would be a good way to gauge where I'm currently at, both compared to last October, and in preparation for my next race this coming October.
The result? As expected, I set a Personal Worst!!! (ha ha ha) ... that's the problem with a sample size of 2.
I deliberately started off slower, keeping to heart rate ... yet I still managed to beat my previous time at 5k! At 10k, I was 28 seconds slower, and then the gap kept widening.
Final result? 3:08:56.7, with a pace of 8:57 min/km (as compared to 2:59:55.1, with a pace of 8:31 min/km).
What does this mean? I think I'm running another half marathon in October, although I'll still train for a full. Well, "train" ... as in I'm really only getting my long run in on a weekly basis. And maybe I'll sign up for a full in early spring 2018 to see.
Overall it was a pretty nice run - a warm-turning-to-hot sunny day, one of the nicest days we've had this summer, so no complaints.
And I got this, so yay.
-tak! thbbft!
