^^^ Race was yesterday ( Sunday ), AM, about 20 hours after this last logged workout. Squats & easy long bike worked. Hamstrings were fine. Not sure about quads, they felt fine, they got fried during the event but still not sure how much of that was from the squatting and how much from the event itself, read log and see graph below:
31 March 2019
RACE DAY:
4.47km @ 23:20 ( watch time, electronic time not yet published, waiting. )
That was one weird course. First of all, who designs a 5K race to be 4.5km? Besides that, it had a lot of downhill ( which i knew ), but also some serious uphill parts.
First 400-500m was uphill, for a total rise of 30-40m. Didn't know that. I was at around 5'20''/km at the beginning, too fast, slowed down to around 6'/km to reach around 5'50'' average on top.
Then until ~3km it was mostly downhill ( only a small 100-200m uphill section but not too steep ). I was doing those downhill parts at 4:5x ( PR level ).
A little after 3K there was this 100-200m steep uphill part ( 20m rise or more in 100-200m ). That was a killer.
Then the remaining, around 1km, was intense downhill ( 50m + drop ). Logged a couple of PRs there, last 500m @ 4'47'' pace , max pace 4'25''.
Overall weird, didn't know how to handle those long downhills. I ended up kinda braking. Now ( next day ) shins are destroyed, very sore glutes and abs too.
I imagine i should have opened the stride length and try to float fast through the downhill sections, tried it but couldn't make it, felt i was going too fast to handle.
You can see the 3 uphills clearly at the graph below ( and their impact on speed ). Looks like a struggle, building up speed a downhills, hitting a wall at uphills, restart lol.
Was fun overall. If i get more experienced in handling downhill i might record some serious PRs there next year. Rare chance to record a sub 20 'official 5K race time' even if it's 4,5 actually, lol
