After probably eating and drinking too much at the Mexican restaurant with Jen and her friends last night, I ran the Melbourne Marathon 10K today in 36:28. I'm none too thrilled with the time but happy to get in a tough run, but it's telling me that there's work to do and gives me a good staring point to eventually take 90 seconds from that before I run a marathon next year, and enables me to plan my assault from here on end. The conditions were funny - great for hayfever, with swirly winds and mild-to-warm weather, but so-so for running (especially those poor marathoners). The split was something like 17:55/18:33 which indicates a lack of endurance, so back to the drawing board from here. Young Luke Searle ran a solid 34:2X, which sounds strong but is not a real indicator of where he's at. He and I ran our cooldown along with Adrian Jeffkins who was toughing it out in the marathon - well done mate, with the body not agreeing with you for an hour or more, you showed some real toughness in grinding it out.
Training seemed a bit directionless - probably because school's back, probably because of daylight savings and a wedding robbing of time and motivation but probably because of a lack of direction more than anything else.
Let the training begin.
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Good work Big Guy. At least now you know where you are at and what needs to be done. How were the Luna Racers????
Tough day by the sounds of it!
Maybe you can target some great 5000m races throughout the T&F season, there are only a couple and its in the finals.
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