Training Log Archive: RosstopherIn the 1 days ending Oct 3, 2011:
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||
| |||||||
| Mo |
Monday Oct 3, 2011 #
5 PM
Trail run ((backbanan)) 25:57 [5] 5.0 km (5:11 / km)
Snuck in a quick trip around the backbanan tonight. I biked over and quickly put on my shoes ( quickly because the mosquitoes are out in the evening) and decided that I would really like to break 26 minutes tonight. Set out fairly quickly and almost immediately started slipping out on the downhills, but kept a pretty good effort and avoided any falls.
Came through the halfway point at 12:12 and felt pretty strong. Only started fading on the killer hill (the pebbley one). I peeked at my watch going into the last hill, and saw that I was going to be a little too slow to make it. I focused on short steps and made myself keep pushing. Was immensely surprised and gratified to come through just under. Beating Boris's time was one of my intermediate goals... now I need to keep chipping away at 25:27 which is place 20 on the top 20 right now.
Garmin was nestled in my backpack in the lab, so there is no way to watch how slow I was crawling up that last set of hills.
Came through the halfway point at 12:12 and felt pretty strong. Only started fading on the killer hill (the pebbley one). I peeked at my watch going into the last hill, and saw that I was going to be a little too slow to make it. I focused on short steps and made myself keep pushing. Was immensely surprised and gratified to come through just under. Beating Boris's time was one of my intermediate goals... now I need to keep chipping away at 25:27 which is place 20 on the top 20 right now.
Garmin was nestled in my backpack in the lab, so there is no way to watch how slow I was crawling up that last set of hills.