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.
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.
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!
