ACT Masters XC Handicap 8km 29:58

Sunday morning 8km XC handicap with ACT Masters Athletics. Weather warm, sunny, windy...typical of September which makes it a few days early. The course identical to the Longstaff 8km which is half on the manicured grass trails, the other half on single track and gravel roads. Both sections extremely hilly. On the flatter sections I was 3:16-3:18/km. On a couple of the gravel hills I was just over 5:00/km. There was a very long descent from that hill coming back to the grass, lots of fun.

This week a session of 500m strides, a maximum threshold 6km XC at BBQ Stakes and Saturday long XC intervals at Stromlo.

September is 3000m month with European Masters Athletics Virtual Challenge. I'll aim to get a few of those done until I am happy with the form. I have new spikes to run with, some of those 3000m will be done on a track.

Comments

Ewen said…
Well done Bruce. I remember that run back down the fire trails from the virtual Sri Chinmoy run, good fun to run fast on a decent surface, unlike BBQ Stakes.
August 30, 2020 at 9:09 PM
Secret Blog for Killing Track PBs said…
Ta Ewen, welcome back to blogging :-)
September 1, 2020 at 8:44 PM
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