Australian Running Festival Canberra Half Marathon 77:22 1st M50-59
Weather cool to warm, light winds, cloudy to full sun for Australian Running Festival Canberra Half Marathon this morning. My plan was to run 2 x 10km splits of 35 minutes and find my way to the finish as best I could. I found myself in the second pack shortly after the start. Splits to 5km were good (3:29,3:26,3:17,3:17,3:25). From around 9km on I was struggling with dehydration, splits mostly in the 3:40s. I stopped for a minute at the final drink station for 3 cups of water and one over the head. Not my best run, no harm done to the legs. I will have recovered easily by Australian Masters Athletics Championships which begin in 12 days.
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Just passed my theory exam in Accounting, to celebrate I went and ran 1.8km tempo, 3x300m hills ~ up in sub 100s (all three), and down in 120s (all three), then a 1.8km tempo run home.
Feel great, hopefully I can maintain my running from now on, even though I still have six more weeks of classroom stuff and three more exams :o(
Keep eating and drinking SBx. BTW I am still only 64.5kgs, even without my running, gotta be happy with that.
GT