What I did not plan for is the fact that I'm an idiot; I dutifully changed the alarm time on Monday evening but then completely forgot to actually turn the thing on. What can I say, the senility isn't going to get any better with old age, is it? At least my body is well used to getting up early and I still woke up in time for 8 miles, so at least it did not end up a wasted day. I was a bit worried that the conditions wouldn't be the same, a windy day makes the evaluation numbers pretty much useless and a stormy Monday morning had been followed by ideal conditions on Tuesday but my luck was in and Wednesday morning was just as calm.
Mile 1 6:43 HR 161
Mile 2 6:54 HR 161
Mile 3 6:50 HR 161
Mile 4 6:50 HR 161
Recovery to HR 130: 39 seconds
These are not the best figures I have ever produced, not by a long shot, but they let me know where I stand and in fact they are better than I expected. At the very least they tell me that I will be just fine for the pacing gig in Dublin, and anyway I still have 19 days to get ready for that. A couple of years ago I produced very similar numbers back in December and I suppose seeing them in October is a good sign. I'm certainly happy enough that I managed to keep the pace very stable and the recovery time isn't bad, but of course there is plenty of room for improvement on all fronts (which is what you'd want at this stage).
Oh, and I'm definitely not doing Valentia this weekend. Shame. But it's definitely for the best.
- 7 Oct
- 8 miles, 1:03:37, 7:57 pace, HR 137
- 8 Oct
- 8 miles, 1:03:44, 7:58 pace, HR 135
- 9 Oct
- 11.75 miles, 1:26:25, 7:21 pace, HR 149
incl. 4 mile eval: 6:43, 6:54, 6:50, 6:50, 39 sec recovery
They look quick to me. Nice steady pace. Presume you're pacing the 3:15 group in Dublin - you shouldn't have any trouble with that.
ReplyDelete3:10 this year as they changed the pacing groups from 15 to 10 minute intervals. I still should not have any troubles with that.
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