Monday 28 March 2011

Really late this time, but I've done a Kilomathon and a Duathlon

Well its only 20 days to the London marathon and I've been so busy lately I haven't blogged.
Training has gone well, the last couple of weeks look like this;
Mar 14 — Mar 20

03/14: Ran 4.12 mi
03/14: Swam 1.02 mi
03/15: Ran 7.29 mi
03/17: Ran 5.74 mi
03/20: Ran 16.28 mi

Mar 21 — Mar 27

03/21: Ran 7.06 mi
03/22: Ran 5.78 mi
03/23: Rode 17.37 mi
03/24: Ran 5.22 mi
03/27: Ran 1.86 mi
03/27: Rode 10.56 mi
03/27: Ran 1.86 mi

Mar 28 — Apr 03

03/28: Ran 2.75 mi
03/28: Ran 8.25 mi
On 20 March I went to Derby to run the England Kilomathon, a metric marathon26.2 km(16.3mile)
my splits were 10km 55:12 (one of my fastest ever times), 10 mile 1:2954 (My fastest ever 10 mile)
half marathon 1:59:59 (fastest ever and sub 2 hr) then I started to run out of steam but still finished in 1:33:05, nearly 5 mins faster than last year.

Yesterday I made my multi-sport debut at the Stokesley Duathlon. I did the novice race, 3km run, 17km cycle, 3km run. It was all very scary, especially when the cycle route had to be changed at the last minute, well 2 days before. There were so many rules to remember, and I'd never cycle raced before.
Anyway we got set off, I found the run hard because I'm used to long and slow, this was short and fast. Then in transition, I took a while sorting myself for the ride making sure helmet was on and fastened before I touched the bike. I couldn't run in them shoes so I walked to the mount point. Then It felt good, but I was catching people up and thought maybe I was going too fast too soon so I slowed till we were round the  Roundabout, then thought "Go for it", worried about being accused of drafting I went for it and started overtaking people, it was exhilarating, this was the bit I had worried most about and it was great fun.
On the way back into Stokesley I had to tackle the roundabout again, "Oh No!" it was really busy, a queue of cars and cars and fast cyclists every where. So I took my turn and as I approached the roundabout it got really busy. i was conscious of the clock ticking and the fact that other cyclists had caught me up. I saw a gap and went for it, I couldn't get my shoe clipped in and that slowed me, and another cyclist went to undertake me and almost collided with the fast riders, I panicked and almost stopped. I clipped in and escaped the roundabout, but my confidence was knocked, I cruised back to transition, where I couldn't get my bike racked because another person had left all there stuff in the way, I dithered a bit then put my bike on the pile of clothing taking care not to put my wheel on the pair of sunglasses.
Trainers on, I set off for the final run, that was weird, legs just didn't belong to me until I'd done about 2 km.
I finished in 1:15:44. could have been a bit faster but happy, although worried that the roundabout incident would get me disqualified.
After a nerve wracking night the results were published this morning and there were no penalties on the novice race, PHEW! and I was 52nd out of 74 and 16th lady and 8th in my age group, so I am totally chuffed.
One more tough week of training and a 10km race to come, then its taper. Can't wait

2 comments:

  1. How annoying that the person in transition wasn't tidy!

    There some good training going on there! Well done!

    Good luck with the VLM.

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  2. Agree with the above about training. You seem to be getting out regularly and putting in some good work. You'll breeze through the VLM!
    I'll watch out for you at Arkendale.

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