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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: Today at 08:08:41 am »
- run JFK 50 miler: 8:20:51, 81.65 km
146th overall, ~88th percentile. i'm happy i finished, which was the main goal. i had no idea how fast i could go, so the plan was just to keep running no matter what, until i couldn't, and not worry about pace. in the event, everything after km 54 or or so was hard, and everything after i left the canal towpath and headed onto the rolling roads to the finish (i.e., the final 9 miles) outright sucked. pace fell first by 15-20s/km and then much farther. looking at it in 5 km chunks, i went from around 28 min/5k or a bit under (except along the ridgeline, where i was around 30-31) to 31+ and eventually 33. did manage a small kick in the final mile and especially final km, which means i could maybe have picked it up earlier, but i had been worried about blowing up. kept reminding myself that the goal was to finish and no worry about where or how fast. finished ahead of a guy who passed me but then immediately started cramping. cautionary tale. i don't think the issue was going out too fast. never had any feeling of accumulating lactate, never let my heart rate get too high, and in fact it dropped in the final ten miles because i couldn't make my legs turn over fast enough to run harder. i just don't have the resilience or the muscular endurance to avoid fading badly on a run that long. i guess that shouldn't be surprising.
my wife and parents crewed and did absolutely great. i'm so grateful for them. fueling was excellent, no stomach issues and i was able to take in around 90g carbs/hour. carried one bottle at a time and traded it out for a fresh one each time i saw them. also changed from trail to road shoes around the halfway point, which was a good call. chafing not quite as bad as at the patapsco 50k, thanks to a reapplication of nut butter when i changed shoes, but it's still there. i think i just need to try a different pair of shorts.
so sore today that i'm literally unsteady on my feet.
146th overall, ~88th percentile. i'm happy i finished, which was the main goal. i had no idea how fast i could go, so the plan was just to keep running no matter what, until i couldn't, and not worry about pace. in the event, everything after km 54 or or so was hard, and everything after i left the canal towpath and headed onto the rolling roads to the finish (i.e., the final 9 miles) outright sucked. pace fell first by 15-20s/km and then much farther. looking at it in 5 km chunks, i went from around 28 min/5k or a bit under (except along the ridgeline, where i was around 30-31) to 31+ and eventually 33. did manage a small kick in the final mile and especially final km, which means i could maybe have picked it up earlier, but i had been worried about blowing up. kept reminding myself that the goal was to finish and no worry about where or how fast. finished ahead of a guy who passed me but then immediately started cramping. cautionary tale. i don't think the issue was going out too fast. never had any feeling of accumulating lactate, never let my heart rate get too high, and in fact it dropped in the final ten miles because i couldn't make my legs turn over fast enough to run harder. i just don't have the resilience or the muscular endurance to avoid fading badly on a run that long. i guess that shouldn't be surprising.
my wife and parents crewed and did absolutely great. i'm so grateful for them. fueling was excellent, no stomach issues and i was able to take in around 90g carbs/hour. carried one bottle at a time and traded it out for a fresh one each time i saw them. also changed from trail to road shoes around the halfway point, which was a good call. chafing not quite as bad as at the patapsco 50k, thanks to a reapplication of nut butter when i changed shoes, but it's still there. i think i just need to try a different pair of shorts.
so sore today that i'm literally unsteady on my feet.
