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Your worst ever race?

diego_b · 2020-04-07 11:45:04

Stealing Murph_D's great idea, how about for the flip side of things and post about your worst ever race here. Make sure to read and add something to the excellent Your best ever race? thread first or maybe afterwards to cheer yourself up. This will bring together your utter disasters and disappointments on road, track,…

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#62 12-10-2020 11:59am
partyguinness

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Slideways wrote: »

3:40 in melb.

Yesterday did the 40 for 40 birthday social run
3:35, nearly exactly 2 years since melb and 5 mins faster. Was great to run without the pressure of racing. That’s moving time as there was a few stops to pick up people who didn’t want to do the full distance and some water stops as it got a bit warm towards the end.

Nice one. It's awful when things start to go wrong. It's not just one thing it’s an entire domino effect.

I was supposed to run Athens in November but it has been cancelled. Being coached for sub 3:30- BP is 3:37 in Manchester 2 years ago with absolutely zero coaching and 3-4 runs a week on my own and that was including about 5 trips to the toilets so I should comfortably manage sub 3:30 perhaps closer to 3:20 as I have had a coach setting my weekly runs x 5 times a week via Training Peaks.

I am training/long runs comfortably at 7:25- 7:40 min/miles BUT (and it is a massive but)…we all know that is easier said than done on the day.

Did a 3hr training run last weekend and comfortably managed 36km including a 2 minute fuel stop plus 15 minute warm up and 15 min cool down on a hilly course. Still going to run a marathon the weekend of the 7/8 Nov but just not sure where yet.

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