Saturday, June 14, 2008

Corporate Cup surprise

The stomach bug stayed with me for another couple of days so no training at all over the long weekend, but I did feel better by Tuesday.

Headed up to the domain on Wednesday for the corp cup. I was happy with last fortnights 24:45 but the training since then had been pretty sporadic at best, so I was over the moon with a 23:50 and 5 secs shy of my PB and a "fast point". I really just can't believe this as my training has been terrible most of the year.

Comparison between my PB set on 15 Aug 2007 with Wednesday's run:

15/8/7

1) 3:41 (158)
2) 3:50 7:31 (178)
3) 4:13 11:44 (185)
4) 3:56 15:40 (183)
5) 4:25 20:05 (184)
6) 3:39 23:44 (185)

11/6/8

1) 3:44 (168)
2) 3:55 7:39 (180)
3) 4:15 11:54 (186)
4) 3:58 15:52 (185)
5) 4:21 20:13 (187)
6) 3:36 23:49 (191)

Goal splits are:

3:40, 3:50, 4:15, 3:55, 4:20, 3:35 (23:35)

4 comments:

Jen said...

Wow, you must really have been slacking the day you set the PB ;-P

Seriously, that's fantastic. Don't underestimate the effect of all the cycling you've been doing. It all counts!

inhisshadow said...

Yeah that one came out of the box didn't it. A very nice run mate

Mike said...

For someone who claims not to have done much running lately, that's frighteningly close to your PB!

Nice job mate, an outstanding sign of things to come. As Jen says, that biking must be really helping your overall fitness.

Ewen said...

Brilliant! More 'rest days' are obviously agreeing with you. I think I'll follow your lead and run far fewer kms during the summer racing season :)