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Review of Great Australian Run (30/11/08)
1. In term of my time, it was my personal worst 15km finish this year with 1:15:47 net time, 1:17:01 gun time.
2. I found it very struggling at the last part of the race. I sounds ridiculous as I just ran not as fast as 5:00m/km pace excpet first 3km. 24:24 5km, 49:20 10km, 59:24 12km, . Yet I slowed down afterwards and ended up with really slow pace of 5:30m/km at the final 3km.
3. Not so disappointed since it is quite expected. Without any training and preparation this week, stimulated by low morale to run a race, it is happy enough not to give up in the midst of the run. Thanks to Michael, Andrew and Tim who greeted and encouraged me during the run so I was able to carry on. Tim the Coach was pretty smart today as he was wearing sun-glasses and stood near 10km mark when I saw him.
4. Surely there were distance mistakes between 4km and 5km markers. 3-4km was too long while 4-5km was too short. I guess most of the runners noticed this. However, I have no idea about the accuracy of other markers as my brain was a fog after that.
5 It was such a wastage for the water station to hand runners bottles of water during the run. Ended up with so many plastic bottles being thrown on the ground. I reckon it would be better to be replaced by cup, and give plastic bottle to runners after the race.
6. At the last 1km, it was really glad to meet a Vienamese comrade who met him in training couple months ago. I was really struggling and decided to walk before he passed through me and greeted me. We shaked hands and I told him to keep going, but he said he could run no faster than this so we ran together. Although people just passed through us as we both decided not to finish strong, I really thank him for accompanying me as I reckon he could run faster than this actually. Finally we crossed the finish line together and I shaked his hand in reponse to his support at the end.
Running distance for November: 118.6km
[ 本帖最後由 michaelyw 於 2008-12-1 10:26 編輯 ] |
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