It's been 'lite-n-easy' for me since 6 inch - first couple of weeks planned recovery and third week thanks to stepping on a bee.
2 weeks back of 70k each, and on to Matilda bay this morning.
I found the weather fairly oppressive - 25 and humid, even wearing my lightest mesh type singlet there was no evaporation.
Started out fairly fast - sitting 20m behind DB - 3:26/3:36/3:37. Things were quite congested, but the 4k runners turned off and it spread out.
At this point I started to feel the heat, and slowed down 3:46/3:50/3:51, gradually slipping further back from DB. Was passed and held onto the guy for a little while but started to blow up a bit with 3:56/3:53. During this section I was passed by another runner.
Turned at 8.4k and saw I had about 150m on the next guy behind me, and had a bit of a second wind finishing with 3:47/3:40.
Crossed in 37:30 (18:13/19:17) in about 10th spot.
I'm happy enough with this. it's interesting looking at pace adjustment charts for heat/humidity - most made by people in the US not too accustomed to heat, they tend to allow too much - one giving me a minute per mile for this temp!. I suspect I could have run between 5 and 10 sec/k faster today in perfect conditions, which fits with where I feel I should be.
DB ended up about 45 sec ahead of me, Roberto won, Gerry Hill second. I did beat big Kev, but i see on Coolrunning he ran a long run yesterday so I wont take much away from that.
Good to see the medical community running - Paul, Laurie and Tim all putting in solid performances.
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I saw you talking to Paul and intended to join you but never quite got there.
My heart has been really bad so far this year, I think I need to make an appointment to see Paul.
cant hurt to see if there's anything else that can be done
I've got a referral to see Paul but haven't made an appointment yet.
A random sample of recordings from my handheld ecg are here in case you are curious.
All of these are taken at rest, no idea if anything different is happening while I'm running.
good running Epi! All the best Craig D.
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