16 August 2008
Brick Oven - Run Leg
Posted by Brad Hefta-Gaub under: Run.
Originally I planned to run 20 miles… but the heat was too oppressive, and since I’m running in new shoes, I felt like I should take it a little easier. My run times were way off the mark of what I wanted… but I ran with what I had in the tank.
I’m not going to be down on myself for this, but I am further convinced that my year of random, and not very consistent “training” is clearly working up to a not very well conditioned athlete. Which is to say… I am going to need to be VERY realistic about my Ironman this year. This needs to be a “just survive” race. Which… is still worth running… but if I want to finish, I need to be realistic.
These splits are slow, true… but I did keep going, taking short walk breaks each mile to get the HR down to 130. I also took one off-clock break when I stopped at the MetMa to buy some cold water and energy drink.
I just double checked the Silverman website, and discovered that in addition to the 10,000 feet of climbing on the bike (no problem, I love to climb!), the run course for Silverman includes 1,600 feet of running UP and DOWN hill. I don’t mind running up hill… although… I’ll be slow… but running DOWN hill! Oh boy… and from the looks of it… this run profile is literally all UP or DOWN… there doesn’t appear to be any FLAT sections of the run course. OMG!
- 8:59 - 140 avg
- 9:17 - 146 avg
- 9:25 - 145 avg
- 10:40 - 148 avg
- 11:01 - 145 avg
- 10:46 - 145 avg
- 10:34 - 138 avg
- 9:55 - 136 avg
- 10:12 - 138 avg
- 11:10 - 140 avg
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 08/16/2008
- Time: 14:00:00
- Total Time: 1:44:59.00
- Distance: 10 miles
- Average Pace: 10:29.37/mile
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