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Marathon running, the whole 42km.

World Iron Man Challenge

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I was thinking yesterday, doing a World Series Iron man race isn’t too bad:

The swim is 4km and the cutoff is 2 hrs. and 20 min., the bike is 180km and the cutoff time is 10 hrs and 30 min from the beginning of the race, and the run is a full marathon which is 42km and cutoff time is 17 hours from the beginning of the race.

Not that I can swim, but that’s only 38 laps of an olympic size swimmin pool, and it sounds pretty easy! The cycling – I’ve never ridden that far before, mostly because I’ve never had time, and I can’t carry around enough food to feed me for such a long time. And the run, well that’s just easy anyway. And sure it might be rough to do these all in the same day, but they feed you all the energy bars, drinks, fluids, gels, etc that you desire and stuff, and each different activity uses mostly different muscle groups, so it’d be refreshing jumping on the bike, or donning the shoes!

This is definitely on my to do list – although plane tickets to Hawaii aren’t cheap, and the entry fee alone is US$450 :(

34.1km run

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Well this is a delayed post, probably because I was too nackered to write this on Sunday. Basically, I went for a 34.1km run. I merged two of my usual 12km routes that I use to train for the annual “Black Hill Challenge” cross country run, and the City to Bay fun run, to create a 20.1km monstrous loop that starts off teasing my legs by going into the foothills a little, then coming back down into the suburbs. I go around and back into the foothills where it’s much steeper and do some big hills. I finished the run off by doing Waterfall Gully road, a tedious place to run after the hill climbs that I did. I was very VERY tempted to keep running after that just so I could say I ran a marathon on the weekend!

I’ve entered the Melbourne 2005 Asics Marathon for October the 9th, which will be doubly cool as I can stay with my cousins whilst I’m there.

half marathon

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Today I ran one of the biggest runs I’ve done in the last few months, approximately half a marathon (21k) maybe a touch more. I am a bit annoyed that I forgot to press ‘start’ for the first 20 minutes of my heart rate data, and due to electrical interference it stopped recording the last 20 or so minutes. The curve below shows 1 hour 15 minutes of running, so it was probably around 15 minutes of running. Since I can do 12k in 55 minutes easy, and I was running about the same pace, linearly interpolating one could deduce that the run today was 25.1 k’s. Although, I would have been only outputting about 80 – 90% the pace compared to when my body is fully conditioned such as I was in the summer, and hence my estimate of 21k’s. I should really measure this distance for reference as I’d say I’m the furthest from the form I was in over the summer before ITBFS, so I could establish a good training floor with this data. It’s a pity I didn’t manage to record it all.

Heart Rate Curve

I should really start working now on pace rather than endurance, as I want to get into the top 150 of the City to Bay fun run this year. There ya go, it’s in writing now Tom so there’s no excuses! I was originally aiming for top 100 this year, but after the problems with my knee and ITBFS I’m going to settle for top 150. I should however be able to get a placing in this years Black Hill Challenge.

I decided to pass up an invite to go to the Grand tonight (speaking of which, I should have gone on Thursday night where they were celebrating Hoff’s b’day, with $4 Hofftails!) as I know I’m going to collapse very shortly. It’s 9:37, and I’m going to bed – weird!

Tonight we had Matt as a Celebrity Chef – definitely close competition to Kath & Morv’s curry, although many factors are yet to be considered.