Running Long, Locally
Today:
Distance: 40.5 km
Time: 4 hrs 13 mins 12 secs
Rate: 6' 15" per km
Weather: sunny, start temp -0.5 degrees, humidity 90%, wind calm changing to finish at 11 degrees, humidity 50%, cold WSW wind at 30 kmph, gusts to 48 kmph, temp felt like 8 degrees.
Week: 103.5 km, July: 65.8 km, Year: 2334.0 km
With no one else about to run with today, I stayed close to home and ran locally. The group seems to be spread all over the globe at the moment, or injured. Out injured as I understand are Softshoeshuffle & CJ, overseas is Strewth, interstate is Liz ( Gold Coast marathon tomorrow) Mick, Nick and others will run Kangaroo Valley King of the Mountain tomorrow. As well it's the start of school holidays and the ACT cross country championships are on today at Weston Park.
No other runners sighted today but there were plenty of other people out walking their dogs, all under control. It was a great morning to be in the great outdoors.
I didn't want hills in the running today so opted for the relatively flat tracks near Pine Is, Point Hut and the nature parks in between. Ran back to home a couple of times for eating and drinking. As hard as I tried, I still ran a bit quicker than I wanted, I need to go slow and then go slower if I am to finish 24 hours still moving forward.
Beaut conditions to start with at 8:30am, cool, gloves to keep the last bit of frost out, long sleeves and shorts, not cold enough for beanie and no wind. Temp still below zero but the sun soon moved the temp upwards. Later in the morning the wind showed it still has bite, cold from the south west, off the mountains and snow.
Remembering I caught a chill in my back last year in winter from the cold winds, I cut today short by a few kms, was really looking to get near 50 kms. I am not taking the chance of the same thing happening again. Last year it ended with 3 days off work and no running for a week.
Overall, today was still faster than I have planned for the first 6 hours of the 24 hour run on a better surface. Hope to get a back up run done tomorrow to go with today.
Distance: 40.5 km
Time: 4 hrs 13 mins 12 secs
Rate: 6' 15" per km
Weather: sunny, start temp -0.5 degrees, humidity 90%, wind calm changing to finish at 11 degrees, humidity 50%, cold WSW wind at 30 kmph, gusts to 48 kmph, temp felt like 8 degrees.
Week: 103.5 km, July: 65.8 km, Year: 2334.0 km
With no one else about to run with today, I stayed close to home and ran locally. The group seems to be spread all over the globe at the moment, or injured. Out injured as I understand are Softshoeshuffle & CJ, overseas is Strewth, interstate is Liz ( Gold Coast marathon tomorrow) Mick, Nick and others will run Kangaroo Valley King of the Mountain tomorrow. As well it's the start of school holidays and the ACT cross country championships are on today at Weston Park.
No other runners sighted today but there were plenty of other people out walking their dogs, all under control. It was a great morning to be in the great outdoors.
I didn't want hills in the running today so opted for the relatively flat tracks near Pine Is, Point Hut and the nature parks in between. Ran back to home a couple of times for eating and drinking. As hard as I tried, I still ran a bit quicker than I wanted, I need to go slow and then go slower if I am to finish 24 hours still moving forward.
Beaut conditions to start with at 8:30am, cool, gloves to keep the last bit of frost out, long sleeves and shorts, not cold enough for beanie and no wind. Temp still below zero but the sun soon moved the temp upwards. Later in the morning the wind showed it still has bite, cold from the south west, off the mountains and snow.
Remembering I caught a chill in my back last year in winter from the cold winds, I cut today short by a few kms, was really looking to get near 50 kms. I am not taking the chance of the same thing happening again. Last year it ended with 3 days off work and no running for a week.
Overall, today was still faster than I have planned for the first 6 hours of the 24 hour run on a better surface. Hope to get a back up run done tomorrow to go with today.
posted by Two Fruits at
3:33 PM
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