A happy new year to the readers still following this blog. I’ve been slacking off posting for a while now. Hopefully should rectify that this year.
Will start blogging my attempts at getting back into shape with the intention of retrying going for the Royal Parks Half Marathon.
Current weight, 12st 0lbs.
I imported some of my old runs into Strava, and found that Strava placed me amongst the other Strava users and even let me see in real time how I fared with the other runners
Source: 10 things no one tells women before they run the London Marathon
Surprisingly a couple of these made me laugh.
#5 you’ll get penis envy. Actually, it’s not a good thing - especially if you forget to wear tight pants. Trying to run around the park with your little friend trying his darnedest to distract you is definitely not fun. Funny, yes. Uncomfortable? Damned so.
#6 you will become a running bore - guilty.
#10 you will want to do another one - yes, but not yet. The atmosphere when I ran the RPHM was electric. I want to experience that again, but not yet.
Just posting this here for my reference in future. My time splits during the RPHM. Held a good pace until 13KM
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4:57 | -- | 4'57"/KM |
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10:29 | + 0:35 (-12%) | 5'32"/KM |
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15:54 | - 0:07 (2%) | 5'25"/KM |
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21:21 | + 0:02 (-1%) | 5'27"/KM |
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26:53 | + 0:05 (-2%) | 5'32"/KM |
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32:23 | - 0:02 (0%) | 5'30"/KM |
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37:55 | + 0:02 (-1%) | 5'32"/KM |
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43:28 | + 0:01 (-1%) | 5'33"/KM |
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9
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49:23 | + 0:22 (-7%) | 5'55"/KM |
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55:27 | + 0:09 (-3%) | 6'04"/KM |
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1:01:05 | - 0:26 (7%) | 5'38"/KM |
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1:07:16 | + 0:33 (-10%) | 6'11"/KM |
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1:13:43 | + 0:16 (-5%) | 6'27"/KM |
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1:20:13 | + 0:03 (-1%) | 6'30"/KM |
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1:26:36 | - 0:07 (1%) | 6'23"/KM |
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1:32:55 | - 0:04 (1%) | 6'19"/KM |
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1:39:20 | + 0:06 (-2%) | 6'25"/KM |
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1:45:50 | + 0:05 (-2%) | 6'30"/KM |
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1:53:03 | + 0:43 (-12%) | 7'13"/KM |
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1:59:59 | - 0:17 (3%) | 6'56"/KM |
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2:06:35 | - 0:20 (4%) | 6'36"/KM |
Via Marathon-Videos. I cross the camera at 17/18 seconds.
http://streaming.marathon-videos.com/video/Sports/CPUK/2015/Royal%20Parks%20Foundation%20Half%20Marathon/BFL%20LEFT.mp4?start=5592&end=5617
Official results for the Royal Parks Half Marathon are up:
The Royal Parks Half Marathon was my first full-blown race, officially-timed, and my first attempt at the 21.1K distance. Never did that distance before, even during my practise runs, and my body is screaming at me not to do it again. But we’ll see.
The race was pretty comfortable for the first 10K, but when I hit 13K, my hip started to hurt and I had to drop down to a walk to recover.
The remaining race was much slower than the first half with my hip and my hamstring (both of them) hurting like hell. Even when I got to towards the finish line, people were walking. One of them had pulled muscle, so I stopped to help him out for a bit. He was concerned about my time, but as long as I finish, I’m happy.
I got over the finish line in 2:03:35 according to Endomondo, and my official time was 2:07:33. Considering this was my first half marathon, and I managed to average 6:00 min/km (I hit 20K at 2:00:00).
It was a painful journey home too. My legs hurt like hell, climbing up or down stairs made the pain spike, but it’s getting easier now.
I don’t think I’ll be running a full marathon any time soon, until I can get the Half Marathon distance down comfortably. It was really hard going at the end:
And plenty of new achievements and awards from Nike+
Just got an email from the RPHM organisers. There’s an app in the Google Play store that allows you to track the runners (including me) during the race, and also provides split times as they run over the timing mats. For runners, it also shows you where you are on the course at that time. Although I wouldn’t recommend it – you need to make sure you’re not running into the barriers :D
Google Play: royalparksfoundationemail.org.uk/1L97-3PL8…
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 10.24 km in 1h:04m:05s.
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10Ks are going to start being my foundation runs - like 5Ks used to be. Today, I beat my recent 10K record too.
Nike+ spotted me doing extra hard today, and gave me two awards:
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 15.60 km in 1h:38m:57s.
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My HM pack finally arrived. :)
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Forgot to blog my long run from Saturday last week:
I was out running 13.32 km on Sep 12 with #Endomondo #endorphins goo.gl/LWHpTG
And managed to break my 10k record surprisingly:
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 10.56 km in 1h:07m:49s.
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With the final weeks ticking down before the run, I’m dropping the plan and concentrating on getting my endurance up. Today’s target was 9 km. Achieved that in 56 mins. Tomorrow, going to try 10 km, then Sunday, try to make it 12 km.
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 9.35 km in 56m:52s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 6.98 km in 42m:38s.
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Plan asked for 3.2km, but I’m more eager to increase my mileage right now. The Endomondo plan isn’t training my endurance (the max distance the Endomondo plan is going to do pre-race 9.90km), so I’m going to start upping my mileage bit by bit. Yesterday, I did 5k, which was 2.5 laps round my local park, then today, I did 3.5 laps around my park (which is +2 km), tomorrow, I’m aiming to do 4.5 laps, which should get me to 9km, all being well.
Out-of-plan run. Targetted 5km - 2.5 laps around my local park.
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 5.18 km in 29m:20s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 3.37 km in 20m:12s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 5.15 km in 36m:43s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 7.07 km in 49m:21s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 2.81 km in 16m:25s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 4.36 km in 27m:14s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 3.35 km in 21m:07s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 8.18 km in 52m:53s.
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健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 2.89 km in 17m:34s.