Today: 12km
Week: 37km
Month: 272km
Year: 272km
Woo Hoo! PB this morning-both for this course and for 5kms. I was feeling irritated by my run on Thursday and decided this morning I was going to dig in and have a good run. I arrived a tad early and chatted wih Blue Dog before the rest of the CR's turned up. It was nice to see the usual suspects and meet a few new faces.... including Bennyr. I decided I would take off at the 24min group (Bennyr and Myself) and aim for a sub 24min time. I took of a little too quickly and decided that I would just try to hang on. Once I hit the 3.5km mark I was starting to struggle and was regretting my plan of going out hard. I passed WT and Siobhan looking good and was briefly inspired to pick up the pace and then rounded the corner under the bridge and started to feel that familiar working really hard nausea feeling. Then an angel appeared.... Ray had caught me and what a ledgend instead of leaving me for dust paced me for the last 800m. He asked me what my aim was and I said sub 24 and he said I was right on track. "Right" I thought, "lets get this done". Then my fav song came on - what more could you ask for.... my fav song and a pacer :-) I managed to find a little bit of speed and picked up the pace for the 100m and finished in 23:45! Woo Hoo! My best time for this course was 24:30 and my best ever 5km time was 23:55. So I was one very happy Kitty Kat!! I felt very satisfied with my effort this morning.... although there was a bit of a wobble at the 4km mark. I was working hard this morning but felt ok on the run back- again practicing marathon pace. There were some great runs again this morning including an ever improving WT who ran the whole 5kms and improved her time- what an effort :-) And I have to mention the very quiet Don Juan who ran 17:??.... blistering!
This has been a weird week. I decided to cut back and run fewer Km's to give the legs a bit of a break after 3 harder weeks...... but have also had two hard runs- go figure. Next week will be a tough week with increased milleage and the 10km Striders race on Saturday. Tommorow is 30km's- with Striders and will be a nice flat run!
Today: 12km- warm up, 5 out and 5 back.
5km Average pace: 4:42/km
Splits: (from garmin)- 4:23, 4:40, 4:43, 4:45, 4:48, 24 (100m)
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Woohoo, congratulations! You deserve to be a very happy Kitty Kat with that effort, especially picking up after feeling a bit wobbly.
Can we ask what the magical song was?
" Dont stop me now" -Queen
You know - " don't stop me now I am having such a good time I am having a ball...."
23:45!! Thats a brillant effort. You'll have to update your blog with your new PB!!!
Well done and best of luck on your 30km run tomorrow :)
Congratulations on the PB Kit. Get that down to 22 before Canberra and you should get close to the 3:40 mark for the Marathon. I'm a minute outside what I ran last year at this time so have a lot of work to do.
Way to go Kitty Kat! What a fantastic PB! Enjoy your lighter week mate - you deserve it after racking up all those kms this month.
Yay Kit - that is fantastic - congratulations :-)
A very nice reward for all the great wrok you have been doing lately.
Great run & PB, Kit! Looking fantastic for a good time in Canberra. Having an 'angel' by your side for the 5km is very neat!!
Wow, sensational run Kit. Congratulations - all of your hard work recently is paying off.
Well done!
Congratulations Kit. You hung on well after a flying start.
Keep going like this and you'll have to start thinking about substituting six foot track for Canberra !! too easy for you.
Congratulations on a well deserved PB Katie. It's great to see solid consistent training rewarded when it counts. Looking forward to running the 30km with you tomorrow.
I woohoo-ed too, just a different outlet. I enjoy the passion and woohoos of your posts
Being Don Juan, here's a bit more poetry. I like the part about triumph and disaster in it:
'if' by rudyard kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Congrats on the PB - well done!
I'm glad we had that little chat before the start, it was comforting to know that somebody else gets nervous before these things. And I wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do, wearing an iPod for the CR challenge, so was happy to see you had yours on :-)
Congrats again on a fantastic run and your new PB!
Great run, Kit. I was worried for the both of us after that first K, (which was under 4:30), but you really hung onto it well. It's great that you can keep improving your speed with the huge volumes you are doing at the moment.
Congratulations!
Cheers,
Ben
Kit,
I was very happy to run the last bit with you and even more pleased that you managed a PB. Your splits were very even near then end so you should also be pleased that you held form to the end.
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