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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 13, 2020, 07:35:16 pm »- run 21.11 km in 1:54:58
distance PR by almost a mile. it was so nice out yesterday that i thought i'd go for a half marathon today. take it nice and easy, just get the distance. but it was hotter than i thought it'd be. stubbornly persisted but i was dragging at the end: last two km were 6:17 and 5:39. overall average 5:27 is pretty slow.
- stretch
wrecked. i had to take a nap and now have a slight headache, which i'm sure is from not being able to rehydrate fast enough. if and when i ever do a half marathon time trial, i'm gonna drive to the C&O canal and just do an out and back on the flatness. same plan for 5k time trial. on that note: i'm thinking about doing a road trip next month to visit some people in massachusetts and new york. tentative idea is to start around the 10th. so might be cool to target the 9th as a day to test my 5k. then again i bet i'll have plenty of time to run on the road trip. maybe it'd be better to treat the road trip as a taper week and then test when i get back. tbd.
nice @ road trip.
i kinda like the idea of doing the half time trial prior to the road trip. this way, when you get some runs in on your road trip, just enjoyable with no thoughts of the taper - less "pressure" and who knows could be a bit out of whack after you get back from the road trip (different foods, driving more, etc etc).
+1 on the flat out and back idea. out and back is great for time trials too. feels better mentally imho.
pc!