skyblue46 wrote: Absolutely fantastic, both the race report and the result! Long may your star continue to rise and your enthusiasm with it. Your training has been amazingly consistent ( I can't get over how many easy runs you hit 8:04 bang on) and well executed. Enjoy the rewards you're reaping :-)
diego_b wrote: Excellent report that now, have done the half in Limerick two times over the last 5 years or so and your report is very good insight for anyone looking to gauge the route itself. I really dislike leaving the city centre for the last few miles to go out to the GAA grounds and back in. Maybe it's the nature of how you feel at that stage in a hal but I wish they'd change that aspect to have you only come into the city centre for the finish (the drag after the turn at the grounds is painful). The poor full people have to run out of town, back in again, out again, back in again! Great stuff on a huge pb, doesn't matter if the previous one was soft or otherwise...keep up the good work.
diego_b wrote: Will you fit the Half on the Head in down there (Jun 16th) and for sure the route takes no prisoners! I’m running it but two weeks after Cork I’ll be doing it as a training run.
skyblue46 wrote: Best of luck tomorrow. I'm sure you'll add to the list of races well run. Something is telling me I'll be reading a race report that won't have many mentions of looking at the watch and will have content indicating a near death experience in the last 100 metres hahaha
skyblue46 wrote: I love reading about the decisions you have to make in relation to other runners, groups, going it alone. It's so different from where I run amongst a maelstrom of bodies! You race, I do a time trial surrounded by many!
Swashbuckler wrote: » It'll come in time. I have no doubt you'll continue to take chunks off your times and by default end up making those decisions. My buddy has started to notice it a bit more with having people to work off. I can't honestly say I raced Bruffman. If he had anything left in him at the end I was done. Haha. But yeah those decisions mid race are something coach said to me day one and he was right. Only racing replicates those decisions and you learn as you go. A right decision one day can be a wrong decision another day. I think I was a little unlucky today that there wasn't anyone within touching distance to force me to push on.
skyblue46 wrote: Ah don't be so hard on yourself....that's a super chunk to take off your PB. I think you're just hurting over 3 seconds
Duanington wrote: Well done, P - that's a very strong PB to post at this stage in the game, you're getting faster and stronger with each race and as you rightly point out, the margins are pretty tight over 5k, more to come
ariana` wrote: Brilliant report. Congrats on the PB. Love the rivalry too, nothing like a bit of friendly competition to keep things interesting
hot buttered scones wrote: Well done and congrats on the PB.
