Training Log Archive: cmorse

Nice day, high 30's to start but a stiff headwind out of the west and yes, the course starts out into the wind. Cold for the pre-race, but then we were off and quite comfortable once warmed up. Rounded the corner and started running with the wind and quickly overheated - slid down the arm warmers, extra buff off, unzipped shirt etc. Could feel the GI starting to rumble so stopped at the finish to use the portalet, an 8 minute wait but the consequences would have lost a lot more time trying to find a discrete location out on the dunes.. Pretty good pace going but the delay put my average pace up close to 6min/km. Running time just under 2:30 for the first half, quick stop at car to refuel and back out. R heel had been bugging me so I took some vitamin I. But a couple miles out on the short loop it started hurting worse so I decided that with O Champs coming early this year, it didn't make sense to push things and risk injury so I backed off the pace and strolled in an hour later and called it a day at 20 miles.

First loop of 2nd half. Heel bugging me pretty bad, Vitamin I not helping, decided not to do last 10 mile loop to avoid causing damage to foot. So this segment marked as a 5 mile cooldown since I was officially only recorded for my time on the first 25km loop - officially a 'Half-Ass' finisher...