BRRC 10 Mile Champs
Sunday: 16k
This Week Total: 50k
Month Total: 177k
Year Total: 553k
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First up a couple of replies ....
RunDave asked "Where do you get Usana, and how much does it cost? What flavours are there?"
I organised it through my massage guy, he set me up an account with Usana. Its from the USA and not available over the counter here as far as I know. The Nutrimeal is $35 I think and it comes in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
R2B said "Hiya Tesso i imagine that if you are comfortable enough to run at 5:15 pace all the time then your 3km time trial best would be around 11:30?(just a bit of guess work to start the week!)"
I wish! My best time (Feb 2005) is 11:53, though since then most have been over the 12 minute mark.
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It was pouring rain when I arrived at West End Sunday at around 5:35am but at least it wasn't hot ... or cold! Clairie and I had planned a 2k warmup but after standing around talking etc only managed a 2 minute one.
My goal for the 10 miles was 1hr20m, though after last weekend's effort I figured anything under 1h25m would be okay. I knew a couple of the faster girls weren't running so with championship points on the line I was hoping to be in the top 5.
I settled into a steady pace just under 5min kms. After about 10 mins I realised there were just four girls in front so concentrated on maintaining that pace. Then I got overtaken by another girl, but didn't want to push it so was happy to be 6th. But she stopped to do up a shoelace and she never came back at me.
Around halfway, I put in a bit of extra effort to catch up to the girl in front of me - I think 'Ice Ice Baby' on the iPod got me revved up :-) I checked her hands (where they write your category) but they weren't marked. So she was a non-member and if she did finish in front of me it wouldn't matter. But I had her now so didn't want to give up too easily. We played a bit of cat and mouse before I finally got away.
From that point onwards I was running just under 4:50s and wasn't overtaken by anyone, in fact I passed at least five or six guys. It wasn't quite life in the fast lane, but maybe life in transit lane :-) The last three kms were progressively faster and the final one 4:28. My splits were all sub 5mins except for one where I had to tie my shoelace, it was a 5:02. Total time - 1h18m37s :-)
Once again young Claire G had a blinder, finishing first in 1:01.??, quite possibly a course record. Not bad for somebody who's only been running seriously for a year! Luckily the girl who came second wasn't a member so our Clairie picked up 99 points and I got 98.
Oh, and I think all we CRs that were there came home with medals :-)
This Week Total: 50k
Month Total: 177k
Year Total: 553k
*****
First up a couple of replies ....
RunDave asked "Where do you get Usana, and how much does it cost? What flavours are there?"
I organised it through my massage guy, he set me up an account with Usana. Its from the USA and not available over the counter here as far as I know. The Nutrimeal is $35 I think and it comes in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
R2B said "Hiya Tesso i imagine that if you are comfortable enough to run at 5:15 pace all the time then your 3km time trial best would be around 11:30?(just a bit of guess work to start the week!)"
I wish! My best time (Feb 2005) is 11:53, though since then most have been over the 12 minute mark.
*****
It was pouring rain when I arrived at West End Sunday at around 5:35am but at least it wasn't hot ... or cold! Clairie and I had planned a 2k warmup but after standing around talking etc only managed a 2 minute one.
My goal for the 10 miles was 1hr20m, though after last weekend's effort I figured anything under 1h25m would be okay. I knew a couple of the faster girls weren't running so with championship points on the line I was hoping to be in the top 5.
I settled into a steady pace just under 5min kms. After about 10 mins I realised there were just four girls in front so concentrated on maintaining that pace. Then I got overtaken by another girl, but didn't want to push it so was happy to be 6th. But she stopped to do up a shoelace and she never came back at me.
Around halfway, I put in a bit of extra effort to catch up to the girl in front of me - I think 'Ice Ice Baby' on the iPod got me revved up :-) I checked her hands (where they write your category) but they weren't marked. So she was a non-member and if she did finish in front of me it wouldn't matter. But I had her now so didn't want to give up too easily. We played a bit of cat and mouse before I finally got away.
From that point onwards I was running just under 4:50s and wasn't overtaken by anyone, in fact I passed at least five or six guys. It wasn't quite life in the fast lane, but maybe life in transit lane :-) The last three kms were progressively faster and the final one 4:28. My splits were all sub 5mins except for one where I had to tie my shoelace, it was a 5:02. Total time - 1h18m37s :-)
Once again young Claire G had a blinder, finishing first in 1:01.??, quite possibly a course record. Not bad for somebody who's only been running seriously for a year! Luckily the girl who came second wasn't a member so our Clairie picked up 99 points and I got 98.
Oh, and I think all we CRs that were there came home with medals :-)
posted by Tesso at 7:30 AM
10 Comments:
We may be "Together in Electric Dreams" but "Ice Ice Baby" ????? ;-)
Looks like you have recovered well.
Looks like you've rocovered from the 12 hr race really quickly.
Glad to see the competitive juices are in full flight!!
Ah - you'll have to suggest to the organisers that you mark the back of each other's calves with the age groups (like in a tri). That's the best way to determine whether the person in front is worth the effort of over-taking or not ;)
Great racing by the brissie girls!
You girls are on fire up North!!!! What is int he water! Well run Tess... sub 5's after your 100miler is an awesome effort!
Ice Ice Baby?? There are some things you shouldn't mention to the public :)
You ran great yesterday, everyone seemed to have a good morning plenty of bling for the CR's
You must have a Rolls Royce engine purring away under the bonnet Tesso. You certainly operate like top class machinery, but with a heart beat.
Another gong!!! Well done Tesso ;-)
I like Miners idea - much better to look at cute calves than ordinary old wrists....
Yo, stop, collaborate and LISTEN! Ice is back with a brand new VEANGENCE! Something - grabs ahold of me TIGHTLY, pulls like a hawk, daily and NIGHTLY!
Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know
Turn on the lights, and I'll glow!
(*LOL* I used to LOVE that song - don't you listen to these other bloggers. Ice Ice baby is a fab song!)
Great effort on sunday! Go Team CR!
awww, I'm so jealous about missing a 10 mile race :(
Good on you Tesso :)
A very good run considering it was at 'cruising pace' Tesso.
Well done on the medal!
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