Saturday, August 1, 2009

geelong XCR09 and a bucketload of driving

..mmmm not overly well today(probs didnt affect my racing though-not in the chest)...all snotty and head achey-been coming down with a cold since thursday :( didnt get home til after 11 last night(at a school play) and hten off to jells this morning for cross country followed by a drive to geelong where i struggled to not fall asleep.
when i got there and did the warm up i felt absolutely terrible.truly wasnt sure if i would even be able to complete the race!
decided to take hte first lap pretty easy(not easy, but slower than normal) and did the first 3kms in 13:50 and then started working through the people.it was great to be overtaking people(particularly up hillls as i know im a good hill runner) i was a LONG way below two of the people from my club and then downhill i worked really hard and actually caught up to them..and with the end having a big hill i knew if i could be in front of them i would finish ahead. which meant, i made the first team-which im quite pleased with as in all of the individual events i have made the first team.
so negative split the 2nd lap 13:41 to run 27:31 A MASSIVE pb over 6km cross country, my previous pb over 6km cross country was 28:27 at jells earlier this year
..am quite pleased with how
so only two more road relays for me-would be nice if i could pb those :( 28:12 for 6.2km at sandown and 17.34 for the Tan(i MUST be able to beat that)

and then had to go to a school function 280 KMS miss jo had to drive today-feel quite exhausted.stu didnt seem impressed when i said i would like to sleep in and skip the you yangs but i think it may be necessary(i might water run anyway)
oh yeah and the heel has been behaving this week

2 comments:

Ewen said...

Good race! The second lap of your 800 is looking more solid than ever.

In your speech you forgot to say "I owe it all to my talented coach Stu for instructing me to run a negative split".

Stu Mac said...

A great PB, well done!