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Lapping it Up

23/6/2015

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Though recovery is progressing better than I might have dared hope, I have yet to make time in a busy last week of term for a full race report from Sunday and so you'll be treated to yet more retrospective drip feeding on TrailBlaster12, my first attempt at an ultra marathon on Sunday:

The details of the lap splits were released yesterday and whilst I had a fair idea of how things had gone from my fractured Garmin data (there were 2 laps where I had no watch while my mate charged it on a laptop in the race tent!) I tracked that in miles, so it was fascinating to see the details of the actual laps, at 5k measurements. While I did slow down in the second half of the day (after my slowest, walked, 'lunch lap'!) I'm surprised how consistent I actually was, and while my fastest, at at 31:36 is certainly no 5k PB, given just how hilly the trail was that's hardly a shock.

Lap Info
I've spent too long already trying to work out the gradient but suffice to say it got steeper as the day went! It looks from my data as if there was a total of about 55 meters of climb in the lap... but of course that wasn't evenly spaced over the 5km. Anyway. Other, fairly dull news for Juneathon 23rd is that I managed to double my time in the pool from 15 minutes of recovery swimming yesterday to half an hour today and have staved off a certain amount of post-race anticlimax by registering for two more races. I will be enjoying and certainly not racing the We <3 MCR 10k on July 12th (about 3 weeks recovery for that one!) and the inaugural Rochdale Half Marathon (another Cannonball Events special!) on the 23rd of August... Two whole months away!
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    Glittermouse is a visual artist, educator and practising Buddhist who also likes a bit of a run from time to time.  In 2014, she realised others could benefit quite a lot from her reflections on running trials, tribulations, triumphs and trip-ups… so she added another volume to her package of blogging adventures.
     
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