852 TSS on 9.8 hours
I'm edging towards the schedule I was thinking about last week, i.e., Victoria's Du, and Guelph Lake Oly, then a couple of fondos later in the summer.
There was nothing really exceptional this week in training. Show up, do the work, "log it", move on.
I went into the race today viewing it as a test for my hopes to run sub 1:30 at the upcoming Chilly Half: they're similar courses (flat), the weather is usually close (ie. cold). I had hoped to hold 4:16/km, that's what I'll need for the half.
It was a great day, cold but sunny. Started out really fast, throttled back within the first km from sub 4 (waaay too fast) to much closer to target pace, started to feel like crap around the 5km mark which started to make me wonder what the hell I was doing. I had run a lot of kms, and thought that I would be in good shape for this. I resolved to stop looking at my watch and just run by feel, focussing on turnover.
I could only see ahead to the next three or four runners, there was a larger group at the front, then it was pretty much strung out. I got passed at about 10k, it was just before we were heading onto a windy section, so I thought, ok, maybe I can just draft this guy, but I turned to look as he was going by -- he was maybe 5'1". No draft there :(.
Plodded onto the finish, and I was feeling better through the last three km, so I started pushing the last 1km, turned the corner onto the finish straight and saw I was going to go sub-54. I ended up 53:49 (4:14/km), which I feel very happy about. Primary lesson: don't forget that you are going to feel like crap at least once, and that this is normal.
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