Preparation is Complete!
Distance: 3 miles
Time: 26:22 (sounds vaguely familiar!)
Shoes: Kayanos (looped laced)
Right - the final run before FLM, and I decided to try the Kayanos loop laced. It seemed to work! Although the outward leg of my run the shoes felt a bit loose, I tightened the lacs on the way home and they felt great, but without introducing that soreness in the top of my foot. I'll be using the same lacing on Sunday.
I rather daftly hadn't got my shirt sorted! My usual techie top had been giving me jogger's nipple recently, so I ran in a club cotton shirt on Friday, which worked fine, but then again if Sunday is hot it's not a good move. So today I tried a techie top I bought at last year's expo. Three miles is hardly a great test, but it seemed ok.
The run was fine - a bit tight in the left quad in the first 1.5, but this eased on the way back. I hope tight quads/ITBs aren't going to come back to haunt me after my 13.1 mile run where they weren't an issue. It'll be a shame if that problem comes back, but if it does I really haven't much idea why! Then again - on that run I did have a few minor twinges in the first fifteen minutes, maybe I just forgot them! The left quad is still a weeny bit tight as I write this though, which is a bit of a worry :o(
My lycra shorts have a hole in them, as do my "marathon pants" - the ones I've worn for every FLM I've done (2000, 2003 and 2004). The thing about them is I know they don't chafe - so I'll be getting them stitched up!
I tried the HR monitor today. It was easy enoguh to set up, but it does seem od that the default is to not register the heart rate signals, given that the machine comes with a heart rate monitor! It's not an extra like a cadence sensor! ANyhow - it was easy as anything to use, the only thing worrying me is that my average HR was around 160bpm when I was running at approximately 8:40m/m pace! What's puzzling is that I haven't really been getting much faster than this pace for ages! Okay - I wasn't tracking my HR then, and my training has been a bit eratic, but I'd still expect to have improved aerobic fitness by now. Nothing fantastic, but I think I'd be expecting to get back to closer to 8m/m, and feeling quite easy at 8:40 pace - more like 140bpm! Ah well - it'll come - I'm hoping after last Friday's run that my training can be more consistent and I'll get some proper training done without worrying about injuries. For the first time in ages, I felt like I really got back to running as I love it.
It crossed my mind "If I could defer a second time, would I do it?". The honest answer is "I don't know!". All the telly coverage and stuff in the papers is reminding me just what a great, atmospheric day FLM is, and although I know I won't do my best run on Sunday, I just know that I'm going to have one of the most memorable days of my life. I don't have to decide whether to defer, but frankly if I did, I have a feeling that I'd probably opt for running it.
Time: 26:22 (sounds vaguely familiar!)
Shoes: Kayanos (looped laced)
Right - the final run before FLM, and I decided to try the Kayanos loop laced. It seemed to work! Although the outward leg of my run the shoes felt a bit loose, I tightened the lacs on the way home and they felt great, but without introducing that soreness in the top of my foot. I'll be using the same lacing on Sunday.
I rather daftly hadn't got my shirt sorted! My usual techie top had been giving me jogger's nipple recently, so I ran in a club cotton shirt on Friday, which worked fine, but then again if Sunday is hot it's not a good move. So today I tried a techie top I bought at last year's expo. Three miles is hardly a great test, but it seemed ok.
The run was fine - a bit tight in the left quad in the first 1.5, but this eased on the way back. I hope tight quads/ITBs aren't going to come back to haunt me after my 13.1 mile run where they weren't an issue. It'll be a shame if that problem comes back, but if it does I really haven't much idea why! Then again - on that run I did have a few minor twinges in the first fifteen minutes, maybe I just forgot them! The left quad is still a weeny bit tight as I write this though, which is a bit of a worry :o(
My lycra shorts have a hole in them, as do my "marathon pants" - the ones I've worn for every FLM I've done (2000, 2003 and 2004). The thing about them is I know they don't chafe - so I'll be getting them stitched up!
I tried the HR monitor today. It was easy enoguh to set up, but it does seem od that the default is to not register the heart rate signals, given that the machine comes with a heart rate monitor! It's not an extra like a cadence sensor! ANyhow - it was easy as anything to use, the only thing worrying me is that my average HR was around 160bpm when I was running at approximately 8:40m/m pace! What's puzzling is that I haven't really been getting much faster than this pace for ages! Okay - I wasn't tracking my HR then, and my training has been a bit eratic, but I'd still expect to have improved aerobic fitness by now. Nothing fantastic, but I think I'd be expecting to get back to closer to 8m/m, and feeling quite easy at 8:40 pace - more like 140bpm! Ah well - it'll come - I'm hoping after last Friday's run that my training can be more consistent and I'll get some proper training done without worrying about injuries. For the first time in ages, I felt like I really got back to running as I love it.
It crossed my mind "If I could defer a second time, would I do it?". The honest answer is "I don't know!". All the telly coverage and stuff in the papers is reminding me just what a great, atmospheric day FLM is, and although I know I won't do my best run on Sunday, I just know that I'm going to have one of the most memorable days of my life. I don't have to decide whether to defer, but frankly if I did, I have a feeling that I'd probably opt for running it.
posted by XFR Bear @ 7:07 am
7 Comments:
hole in pants
dare I ask where?
and careful with the stitching
that could chafe
SEE YOU SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!
Good Luck m8
bottom of the leg Benzy!
might see ya Saturday :o)
Cheers Will :o)
argh - I was just about to make that comment about your pants!!!
careful where you tie the knot in the thread and sew the ends in lol! :oD
thank feck for that
Deffo -wouldn't want a sore b*ll end!
that was TMI wasn't it??
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