City to Surf

Note to self must get back to regular running and blogging. Any way here's a sum up of the C2S from yesterday.

A very fine day for a a run, great company at the start and the end but a shocker of a race. ended up well outside my target 65 mins finishing in 66:55. rather dissapointed and annoyed that both my ankles were giving me hell. It seems to be nerve related pain that kicks in between 5 and 7 km into a run in the anterior part of the ankle and then my feet go numb. It has been troubling me for about a month now (hence I was undertrained). Yesterday it kicked in about 7km and then about a km later my feet started going numb so for about 6 km I ended up just planting my feet on the ground, having very little proprioception. Anyway enough of the whingeing, congrats to everyone who completed and achieved targets yesterday - congrats. Now for a physio apointment!

Official Results

Got the paper this morning and results are good

Gun Time: 98:04
Net Time: 97:42
Place: 989

Ecstatic to break the top 1000 and have the urge to run alot more although sore muscles are stopping me atm.

The official time means a 3:34 PB on net time or a 3:50 PB on gun times.

An awesome race culminating in a PB

Did the SMH Half Marathon yesterday which was awesome fun. My friend Pam came down on sat with me to race as well which was good. The race went really really wel and I think I have PBed by just over 3:30. By my watch I came in at 97:44 but I took about 1 sec to stop my watch so I guess about 97:43.

The race started well with a somewhat too fast 1st km on 4:10, slowing down slightly after that I was able to keep at about 4:35 pace for most of the first half. At about 5.5 km I caught CR Gronk who realised he was way ahead of his target pace as we were heading for about 96/97 min pace at that stage. After a brief chat about uni I kept going and caught CR truckie not far ahead. For the next 4 km or so Truckie and I ran together his presense helping me to keep pace until I lost contact with him. The 3rd five km I was rather slow which was somewhat dissapointing but I was able to pick up the pace again through the last 6 km or so. Although I didn't get the 97 mins I was after i came very close (there's always next time) It was great to catch up with the other CRs and Striders after the race. There were alot of PBs out there which is always impressive and all seemed to have a great time.

My times for the day were

1 4:10.7
2 4:30.6 8:41.4
3 4:37.2 13:18.6
4 4:41.9 18:00.5
5 4:22.0 22:22.5
6 4:40.4 27:02.9
7 4:44.0 31:46.9
8 4:21.9 36:08.7
9 4:39.0 40:47.8
10 4:57.6 45:45.4
10.5 48:11
11 4:53.6 50:38.3
12 4:25.0 55:03.4
13 4:58.9 60:00.2
14 4:56.5 64:58.7
15 4:36.3 69:35.0
16 5:01.1 74:36.1
17 4:49.1 79:25.2
18 4:25.0 82:50.2
19 4:41.5 88:31.7
20
21.1 9:12.1 97:44.8
10.6 49:33

time/km = 4:38

So in the end the second half let me down a fair bit but I was happy with my time.

A correction

Well in official results in I was 1 sec faster which brings my PB down to 42:29

A great PB

Went on sat to the striders North Head race and I smashed my old PB by 37 secs. Went out way ,way too fast, a fact I was alerted to by several other runners both during the race and after. I realise now that I should listen to people when they say focus on the back 5k. Will try and not do 3:56 first kms until I can actually break 40 mins. Anyway I ended up doing 42:30 which brings me closer to that goal of sub 40 mins for the season. Thanks to mum, dad and my little bro for supporting me during the race.

Nicho

Not quite a PB but well up in the placings

This month for the Striders 10km I set myself on breaking 42:30 unfortunatley not realising how much slower the Domain course really is having never done it before. I ended up getting 43:31 which I was ok with and was 24 secs outside PB. I felt I had pushed myself and Uncle Dave said this course was worth at least 30 secs on Homebush, something I didn't realise fully until I got the results later in the arvo. I placed 88th, for the first time in the top 100. This put me at 61st on handicap which was fairly good. However for the series this puts me 15th in my age group, 43rd in open mens, 51st on the age and gender adjusted tables and a massive 9th place in the handicap rankings which I am extatic about. I have a feeling with the holiday break in b/n this race and next that I will be able to bring those times down even further and break that sub 42 possibly.

The times are tumbling

For the second month in a row at the striders 10km race this morning at homebush I set a new pb. My latest of 43:06 is still a fair way off the illusive 40 min mark but is looking hopeful. With a very fast start ( I was silly and tried to stay with the 40 min pacer) I paid the price at the end but was still very happy with how I went. With the road and xcountry seasons starting things are looking good and with a little more training I should be able to break a few more PBs.

Just to clarify

The time I stated yesterday was only on a practice loop which while I know is 10km is not an official race. I only count official race times as PBs to keep me honest in my training. Thanks for the encouraging comments
Nich

Not much running and alot of work - Plus a warning to oponents

Early december I started working for Howards Staorage World at hornsby and since then I haven't run very much. Tiredness has been hitting me hard which sucks and I am really missing getting out there and pounding the gravel so to speak. Some good news though last week I ran a 39:53 on my 10km practice loop which looks awefully good for the season ahead. If I keep up this form I should be able to smash my PBs this year.

A run in the bush

I went for a run today with my mate Josh in the national park. After running down the Sphinx trail we both managed to injure ourselves and hobled back home via the Bobbin Head Track. Despite the heat and our injuries it was alot of fun catching up after not seeing each other this year being in different cities for uni. I had a great time and hope I can do it more often however these injuries are probably going to slow us down for the next week or two.

That's all for now,
Nicho