Amsterdam 2010

BeepBeep67

Close enough race with the top inside the course record. Feleke winning by about 30secs. 2.05.4X

Peckham

Any word on Amadeus? Can't find a live tracker, and the results don't seem up to date.

donothoponpop

Peckham wrote: »

Any word on Amadeus? Can't find a live tracker, and the results don't seem up to date.

2:58:01! The boards sub 3 club keeps on growing, well done amadeus!

Peckham

great result. Well done Amadeus.

RacoonQueen

Well done amadeus.

Krusty_Clown

Congrsts Amadeus, superb result.
Sub 2:40 is the new sub 3:00, so you'd better hit the road.

Enjoy the well earned rest. Hope we'll see a race report somewhere, sometime soon.

BeepBeep67

Just back from the half longest run since May. 88:4x I'll be back to attack this one when I'm fit real PB material.

BeepBeep67

John Eves who's with me from DSD ran just over 70 for 3rd.

Woddle

Good running but I guess that means he won't be running Dublin this year.

Slogger Jogger

Delighted for you Amadeus, very well done.

Well done BB, plenty to go for on that time on another day.

--amadeus--

On phone so can't post properly but thanks for the good wishes, much appreciated!

Abhainn

--amadeus-- wrote: »

On phone so can't post properly but thanks for the good wishes, much appreciated!

Fair play man. Huge congrats. I was searching this morning to see if it was live somewhere on the web

--amadeus--

Cheers folks, it is genuinely appreciated. As BB says it is a great race and well worth a trip if you're in the market for a fast race.

Race report - not really much to write, TBH. I'm going to update teh "Sub 3 support" thread with my lessons learned but I missed a fair chunk of training through the cycle - two weeks in Spain followed by a week of no running while I caught up with work for example. Ideal world target was 2:55 but sub 3 was a must - miss that and I wouldn't be coming home.

Set off with no disasters this year and from the off pace was slightly wobbly - I needed 4:08 km/min and I would do a couple of 4:08s followed by a 4:10 or a 4:11. I was losing a second here and a second there but never really gaining them back. And there were 2 kms where I just went to sleep - one of them I think was a measurement thing where I just missed the button but one of them was at the segment of the course where you run along where they have the kids 1km fun run. It's my fave bit of the course - bands, loads of people and loads of kids looking for high 5's - and I just lost track and ran a 4:25 km :eek:

All of which left me 20 seconds down at half way (1:27:50, still faster than Eniscourthy!) At this point I was wondering about how I would pull back teh time and tested my legs out a bit but by 25kms it was clear that I had a tough decision to make. Chase the 2:55 and risk a blow up or "cruise" home and take an easy sub 3.

To be honest it was no decision really. I let my pace drop to a comfortable 4:14/km and teh 30 and 35km splits are identical at 21:12 each. I'm not going to lie and say that it was a stroll - 4:14 pace after 18 or 20 miles is never easy, at least for me - but I was running within myself. Last 5k I knew that I could basically walk home in under 3 so I just took my time, enjoyed teh atmosphere I'd missed last time and savoured the fact that I was (at long last) about to break 3 2:58:02 in the end

Thanks again for the good wishes - this year has been a bit of a roller coaster as far as running is concerned and it was nice to see a congrats thread pop up, it helped make my day!

seanynova

well done amadeus....stroll in the park sub3! nice going....again, like peckam...you have given me a bit of hope for my own sub3(2:55!) target....was supposed to try it in amsterdam also but a few external influences changed that to dublin next week....have missed a bit of quality training with injury but hopefully i can run like youself on moday.

anyway as i said, excelent going/run, by the sounds of it your in great shape and could easily improve if the training went well!

enjoy the recovery....

opus

Congratulations, great result!

It's somewhere I'll have to try sometime in the next year or two as I used to work for a Dutch company a few years back so spent a lot of time in Holland.