Toughing out 20 miles
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there!
My wife got up bright and early to do her 16km long run yesterday and this meant that I did my long run slightly later than I have been doing my runs. I’ve been doing my long runs on Saturdays (and my wife on Sundays so we can take turns watching our daughter) but this week we had a family thing on so we both ran on Sunday.
The plan was to try and emulate my last 20 miler pace (about 6 min/km) but over a different route. I decided to run along our waterfront. Conditions were pretty good. Overcast with a slight wind:
The run did not go as well as planned unfortunately as I had some stomach issues and at about the 12 km mark I had a Code Brown event. Fortunately I was just outside a public convenience so disaster was averted!
I think I must have picked up a bug from something as my daughter was experiencing the same sort of symptoms. In a way this is a relief as it means that my hydration and fuelling strategy wasn’t at fault.
I’d kept the pace under the 6 min/km mark reasonably comfortably up until that point but I have to admit that the second half of the run was a real struggle. I kept getting stomach twinges and had to walk a hundred metres every so often.
In the end I did 32.2km in 3:26:18 for a 6:22 min/km pace. A while ago I would have happily taken that pace for a long run so I guess I can’t complain.
I raced the virtual partner again and this time round he had his revenge. Last time I whipped him by a km and this time he whipped me by about 1.2 km! I’ll get him on marathon day eh!
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FANTASTIC… especially with the sickness.
Thanks… always enjoy reading!
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Hey Andrew: Way to gut it out…literally! I did 3 20 milers for my marathon and two of them totally sucked! One was awesome though. You’re going to do great. Sub 4 here you come!
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Code Brown, eh?!?
I don’t know about you, but my kids are walking petri dishes. They seem to bring everything home.
But hey! At least you got through the run, right?
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Good for you for toughing it out! I’m sure I would’ve been horrified and turned for home.
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Nice work. The fact that you kept going despite everything speaks volumes. I’d be happy to just finish 32kms, regardless of the time.
Code brown – ha! Feel better. Cool both you and your wife run.
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Code Brown – LMAO!
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I’d be happy to do that many kms no matter what the pace!
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Beautiful pic but oh so sorry about not feeling well! Hope you are better soon!
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Good stuff! And thank goodness for that public convenience stop. Last week I had one of those “runs” (pardon the pun) and was really praying for this one public washroom to be open as I struggled towards it, but to no avail. The thing was still locked up! Those last few kilometres home were not fun, that’s for sure.
Looks like you had a fantastic run, but I hate those emergency “dashes of distraction”. Sounds like you recovered well though!
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I love the determination.
race day you are going to tear up that virtual partner!
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I love your progress, and your posts, but the math is killing me. What’s all this Kilometer talk?
Oh and Code Brown my be my new favorite saying in the world.
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Good run – bugger about the “brown out” though. You’ve done some great training, you’ll blitz that 4hrs at Christchurch – AND enjoy it
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Now…that is dedication…I know I guess I’d have to continue on as well…perhaps it is best to treat each training run like the real thing…way to go!
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My partner and are I both runners (though she’s battling a calf injury right now) and we’re always trying to juggle schedules, too. We had both planned to run a 10k race on the same day and were trying to find someone crazy enough to agree to watch our kids at 9:00am on a Sunday!
Right now, my spouse is really frustrated with her injury that’s keeping her from running, but I admit it does make it easier to schedule things
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