It was a wonderful day. Not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of wind and 22 degs C (72F) defiantly a shorts and tee shirt day!! I picked Atkinson Street down the port as it is not a busy street and it has been built on reclaimed land so and flat as I can find. Plus nice views of all the boats and birds as I walk back and forth.
I started out a little too quick. I found that my head just went into "race mode" and really had to fight with my self to pull back...so doing 5km in 30.40 was not the plan but its what ended up happening. The idea was also to push for 2km 3x during the walk. I made my first attempt at the 7km mark but as soon as I pushed my knee would tweak....so I eased up. I stopped briefly at the 8km as I needed a drink and I put some anti flame on my knee (which made a helped lots) I also found one of my Power Gels and sucked on that quickly as I had not had breakfast and was feeling the effect of no gas in the tank. So I started out and tried to keep to a fairly steady pace, I did try to push again and managed to made a small dent in my pace time but the tank was empty. I passed many people out walking their dogs and by the 15km mark had my very own cheer leading squad calling out from the boats in the Marina. There are a large number of live a boards in our marina and so I caught their eye. My cheer leaders had brought deck chairs out on the deck of their boats and were sizzling steak on a bbq and having a quiet drink. Smelt so good too.
My shoes were awesome. No complaints there at all. I did however get a lot of chaffing under one arm and had put Vaseline on before going too. I just didnt expect it to be so hot.
As I turned for my last 2km I felt such a releif that I had actually completed it again and the body had held together. I pushed hard for the last km and had hoped for a much faster time than a week ago. I was a little disappointed that it was not as fast as I had hoped but still it was a little quicker than last. I finished in 2:06:41 about 1 min faster. So I will take that.
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| This was my view heading back to the start of my one km. Great walkway - smooth and flat. |
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| Heading up off the walkway onto the road for about 200m then I would turn and head back again. |
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| The live a board boats in our Marina - My cheer leaders are on the first boat on the left side of picture. You can see them posing as they thought I was taking their picture. |
20km - 1km laps by kyisis at Garmin Connect - Details
2 comments:
Very nice walk! Almost exactly the same as mine from a week ago. We should train together, y'know?
Beautiful scenery, too...you are lucky to live there! So nice & warm ALL YEAR. Weather has been great here but it's about to turn and soon it's going to be snowy :(.
Sounds like a very worthwhile session. I can see at least two lessons learned: 1/ always have breakfast, you can't race or do a hard workout with no fuel; and 2/ lube under your arms. I always need to lube when wearing a singlet, and found on the weekend that even with a T-shirt need lube after a period of hours.
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