TC10k or Times Colonist 10k - Tomorrow.
Times Colonist 10k tomorrow.
If you have read this blog for the last couple of months you will note that I have been blabbering on and on like a bored housewife (oops) that my training (in my little utopia) was not nearly as good as I would have liked. Notice all the past-tenseness. So from about then (whenever that was - paying attention?) I planned on and applied a band-aid running program so that I could reclaim some fitness enough to enjoy the Vancouver Sun Run and the Victoria Times Colonist 10k (both 10k).
I am satisfied with the Sun Run from last week, as I really laid it all out to finish under 38 minutes (37:58). This is hard to do as the beginning of THAT race is so fast you are guaranteed a positive split (for non-runners: you don't want a positive split really or not much of one).
Well tomorrow is the Times Colonist 10k. All I really want to do is run 1 single, solitary, little, tiny, wee, infinitesimal, quick, wee (again) minute faster than last week. This will be tough, as the TC10k course is A.) ever so-slightly-slower than the Sun Run and B.) subject to wind.
Although negative splitting is more possible as the same sort of downhill featured in the Sun Run RIGHT AT THE START, is featured at the 7k mark to the 8k mark, therefore providing a marked chance of negative splitting.
I tactically would like to be on pace by 7k or slightly slower, so that I can take advantage of the nice downhill from the Mile O marker (of Canada - not the race).
So that's it 36:59 = sub 6 minute miles x 6.2 or 3:40-ish kms x 10 or 18:29 5kays x 2 or an 8km personal best x 1 plus finishing vertical.
Not that I have been thinking about it or anything.
If you have read this blog for the last couple of months you will note that I have been blabbering on and on like a bored housewife (oops) that my training (in my little utopia) was not nearly as good as I would have liked. Notice all the past-tenseness. So from about then (whenever that was - paying attention?) I planned on and applied a band-aid running program so that I could reclaim some fitness enough to enjoy the Vancouver Sun Run and the Victoria Times Colonist 10k (both 10k).
I am satisfied with the Sun Run from last week, as I really laid it all out to finish under 38 minutes (37:58). This is hard to do as the beginning of THAT race is so fast you are guaranteed a positive split (for non-runners: you don't want a positive split really or not much of one).
Well tomorrow is the Times Colonist 10k. All I really want to do is run 1 single, solitary, little, tiny, wee, infinitesimal, quick, wee (again) minute faster than last week. This will be tough, as the TC10k course is A.) ever so-slightly-slower than the Sun Run and B.) subject to wind.
Although negative splitting is more possible as the same sort of downhill featured in the Sun Run RIGHT AT THE START, is featured at the 7k mark to the 8k mark, therefore providing a marked chance of negative splitting.
I tactically would like to be on pace by 7k or slightly slower, so that I can take advantage of the nice downhill from the Mile O marker (of Canada - not the race).
So that's it 36:59 = sub 6 minute miles x 6.2 or 3:40-ish kms x 10 or 18:29 5kays x 2 or an 8km personal best x 1 plus finishing vertical.
Not that I have been thinking about it or anything.
Don't fear the reaper.
posted by Chris at 9:39 AM
