Tomorrow is my first race for the year. The Carisbrooke Classic and so begins the lead up to the Adelaide Marathon 2009. The last time I completed the Classic was in the marathon year of 2007 and I finished in a touch over 55mins. I hope to smash that time tomorrow to prove to myself that I am way ahead of where I was 2 years ago. My 10km PB is 53:45 and my goal for the year is sub 50mins. I won’t be too devastated if I don’t do sub 50mins as it is still early in the year and I have really only just gone sub 25mins over 5k. Having said that, I will come home disillusioned if I don’t get a PB.
My race strategy (though it may change in the stomach knot twisting lead up to the start) is just to run as fast as I can, by listening to my body and pacing off those around me. I could set the Garmin Training Assistant to 5min/k pace, but I don’t want to put myself under that pressure and just want to see where I am at.
I better be at that magical PB place…you’ve been warned legs, lungs, heart, brain. Failure is not an option.
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March 31, 2009 at 6:57 am
So how did you go? 51:17?
The Kersbrook run looks like a good one. Two laps of that hill would be perfect training for 6′.