Just a mini-update for this morning's race: 25.something km, 720m of vertical -> ran 3:04:27 (7:07 min/km)
Started the race thinking, "hmm, well, I did 2:25 for 30km at Around the Bay, and this is pretty hilly, but shorter, so maybe 2:45-ish is reasonable?" Had I been predicting my lap 4 (of 5) split, that would have been accurate.
Lap 1: 31:51 (13:13 + 18:38)
Lap 2: 33:27 (13:31 + 19:56)
Lap 3: 36:48 (14:42 + 22:06)
Lap 4: 39:03 (15:57 + 23:06)
Lap 5: 43:15 (17:17 + 25:58)
Running some numbers, it looks like I was 5-10% slower each lap than the previous, the last being the worst. I heard more than one person say "man, I thought I had paced this properly." Last lap was 35% slower than the first.
Better thought would be "your slow is not slow enough". I will need to remember this at the start on Sunday.
Post-recovery food was awesome. Every race needs a dedicated smoothie table.
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