Speed speed speed
Monday, 9. June 2008, 02:08:55
It's 10,30 and I'm on the train out of Kråli. It's not the fastest train to Victoria Station, London, but it's not the slowest either. I'm 30 minutes late because I couldn't get to sleep quickly the night before. In today's Britain there is usually weekend engineering work on the railways somewhere, and this weekend it's on the Victoria line through London and on the train line to Birmingham - I finally arrive in town about 2 hours late. Pretty good for a Saturday.
First thing was to meet an old friend from University. All of a sudden he has two children! Very cute. Rest of the evening quite - watched a movie (City of God, amusing but not realistic) with Brother then went to bed and slept pretty badly.
The next morning we were up bright and early for the Kenilworth Rotary Club's Two Castles 10k Run. There were about 2,500 runners there - the weather was fantastic, although not as hot as it was in Oslo. A nice course from Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle and through some of the Warwickshire countryside. I've never done the run before, it's mostly slightly uphill, which is a nice challenge - I'd like to do it again, it was a fun race. I kept a nice even pace for most of the race and didn't try to push myself too hard, managing to stay at a pace which I was happy with for the whole course.
537 Coming into Kenilworth Castle. Picture by my sister in law, who would have done me as well but I was on the wrong side of the track where she couldn't really see me.
The time. My training run is (ironically) 11.3 km, and my best time for that is 1.06:43. This means a 10k should be 57 minutes, or there about. I thought that because of the crowd I may have to slow it down a bit. My time came up as about 54:10, better than I'd expected, and a personal best. The time is approximate: we were running with these ankle chips, so I didn't time that accurately, but I'm sure that I'm not far out. The numbers will get published soon enough. It's the fastest pace I've made for that distance at about 8:45 minutes to the mile, although at the start I was going quicker. I know that I can do it faster, and I felt a bit bad for not keeping the pace for the whole course, but I'm still a rookie runner with only 10 months running. Heroics next year.
My brother finisehd in about 48 minutes. My running buddy Rick was in Southend doing the Southend-on-Sea Half Marathon.
Cool news: we have our final two races for the rest of the season planned out and booked!. July 12th we are Adventure Running in Bracknell Forest. This means cross-country running for 5-10 miles and mountain biking for anouther 10-20, with a mystery challenge that is revealed on the day. It's the first Adventure Race we've done, and it sounds really cool - I love going off-road!
Our final outdoor event this year is the Great North Run on October 5th. It's a half-marathon, and we are running for Epilepsy Action. We're working on a website which I'm hoping to have up and working this time next week, so folks can check it out and see what we're doing, and why.
Team "Low Fliers", next in action on July 12th.
I got back late Sunday night because I had to stay and watch the Canadian GP with my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law Lisa is a huge GP fan - more than anyone else in the family. It was a pretty exciting race - the track was falling apart, Lewis Hamilton screwed up and crashed into Kimi Räikkönen in the pit lane, Polish racer Kubica won his first ever GP for BMW Sauber, and David Coulthard finished on the podium. Cool.
First thing was to meet an old friend from University. All of a sudden he has two children! Very cute. Rest of the evening quite - watched a movie (City of God, amusing but not realistic) with Brother then went to bed and slept pretty badly.
The next morning we were up bright and early for the Kenilworth Rotary Club's Two Castles 10k Run. There were about 2,500 runners there - the weather was fantastic, although not as hot as it was in Oslo. A nice course from Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle and through some of the Warwickshire countryside. I've never done the run before, it's mostly slightly uphill, which is a nice challenge - I'd like to do it again, it was a fun race. I kept a nice even pace for most of the race and didn't try to push myself too hard, managing to stay at a pace which I was happy with for the whole course.
537 Coming into Kenilworth Castle. Picture by my sister in law, who would have done me as well but I was on the wrong side of the track where she couldn't really see me.
The time. My training run is (ironically) 11.3 km, and my best time for that is 1.06:43. This means a 10k should be 57 minutes, or there about. I thought that because of the crowd I may have to slow it down a bit. My time came up as about 54:10, better than I'd expected, and a personal best. The time is approximate: we were running with these ankle chips, so I didn't time that accurately, but I'm sure that I'm not far out. The numbers will get published soon enough. It's the fastest pace I've made for that distance at about 8:45 minutes to the mile, although at the start I was going quicker. I know that I can do it faster, and I felt a bit bad for not keeping the pace for the whole course, but I'm still a rookie runner with only 10 months running. Heroics next year.
My brother finisehd in about 48 minutes. My running buddy Rick was in Southend doing the Southend-on-Sea Half Marathon.
Cool news: we have our final two races for the rest of the season planned out and booked!. July 12th we are Adventure Running in Bracknell Forest. This means cross-country running for 5-10 miles and mountain biking for anouther 10-20, with a mystery challenge that is revealed on the day. It's the first Adventure Race we've done, and it sounds really cool - I love going off-road!
Our final outdoor event this year is the Great North Run on October 5th. It's a half-marathon, and we are running for Epilepsy Action. We're working on a website which I'm hoping to have up and working this time next week, so folks can check it out and see what we're doing, and why.
Team "Low Fliers", next in action on July 12th.
I got back late Sunday night because I had to stay and watch the Canadian GP with my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law Lisa is a huge GP fan - more than anyone else in the family. It was a pretty exciting race - the track was falling apart, Lewis Hamilton screwed up and crashed into Kimi Räikkönen in the pit lane, Polish racer Kubica won his first ever GP for BMW Sauber, and David Coulthard finished on the podium. Cool.
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