Saturday, August 27, 2005

CR -5K time trial

Rode from home to Le Montage (6k) and parked the bike there so I could do a few k's warm-up round to Drummoyne rowers where the time trial starts.
Got thru the warm-up o.k (2.71k) and met up with all the usual suspects.
Lined up with Cam, Springer, Andrew T and a few others in 18 min group (i.e all those trying to run under that time).
Felt pretty good thru the first k and then at about 1500m I got a stomach cramp and slowed. Fortunately the toilets at Nield park were open so made an emergency dash just in time !
Bugger. I was feeling pretty confident today and was sitting nicely with the other guys until I stopped - they all went thru and ran 17.20 - 17.30 or thereabouts.
After the pit stop I continued on and ran the last 3k in 11 minutes. Very hard to keep going once the motivation has gone !
Split at 2k was 6.55. Total time 17.59.
In terms of a workout it was fine but a bit dissapointing not to be able to run it right thru.
Ran back to the start with a few others and then jogged back to Le Montage (7.5k) and then cycled home.

Total 15.2k run, 12k cycle.

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