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09/11/2008 Sunday Long Run (22km for me)
I had Sunday long run with the group today as I had already disappeared for such a long time. It was a really good running morning (before 10am) as we started at 8am. They planned to run at least 24km for today.
However, when I looked at the group member just a bit thorough, including Dave the teacher , Tim the coach and his wife, an Ethiopian the No. 3 Melbourne Marathoner and some smart youngsters, I reckoned I had stepped into a 'pirate ship'. Probably I had to expect running myself half of the whole run.
Nonetheless, I still wanted to test myself so I still decided to follow them. We started from the Tan, running east along the Yarra River and turned back before reaching Yarra Boulevard (a bit more than 5km mark). They started with about 4:45 so I could still narrowly follow them even though I knew it very well that they were doing negative split. Soonly I was leaped behind at about 6, 7km when we were heading back to city. A mile later that nice Ethiopian guy ran back and saw if I was okay " />" />" />" /> before sprinting back to the group. I reckon he was trying to do an extra work.
I completely lost their sight on the half way when I reached Casino. I had run about an hour at this stage and took a pack of energy Gel. Knowing they were running towards South Melbourne and St Kida, I tried to catch them by running south. Lamentably I still could not find them at South Melbourne, so I decided to run approximately 2hours myself before running back to the start. So far I ran at about 5:20 when I lost their sight completely and felt enjoyable to run under the sun (as soon as it wasn't at the top of the sky).
Eventually I ran back to the Tan as I had run 1:53 in total. I estimated I had run about 22km totally. I was quite happy about this run overall although it was 2km short the inital plan. An Ethiopian was alreay there and greeted me immediately right I had just get there. Tim and one Indian guy did some extra work by running along the Tan track in order to make it 27km in total. We had a nice breakfast after that. A nice day so far
[ 本帖最後由 michaelyw 於 2008-11-10 08:44 編輯 ] |
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