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A Moyleman For All Seasons
20-03-2019, 08:16 AM,
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RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons
[part 2]

The turn at base of Death Valley (more prosaically Falmer Bottom) had a cheery marshal who had written up the leading times - first runner through 13km in an astonishing 52 mins  - and then I pushed on for the rise to Kingston Ridge.  

   

I passed Brian Courage and Jen Keaneally (both Almeria and core MM runners) on the full - with the wind giving helpful shove up.

My turn at top was still just 1 min down on target and likewise at top of Yellow Brick Road, 1:31 with just over 5km to go. I knew that a good final section could deliver sub-2hours.

Those last 5km were a touch harder than I expected, a slight rub of the new shoes on my right foot was irritating.  On the turn up from Cricketing Bottom I succumbed to a walk up the little slope to the C7 to recover a little.

And then over, giving wave to fine marshalling crew - I pushed for the river bridge and the finish at the YHA.  Looking at my times, I see I was clocking 5:30+, which was just about as fast as I could make it at that point.  I was I think at my limit.

The finish of the first leg is just a tad over halfway, so the run was 21.3km and my published time was 1:58:59.  My Garmin suggests I was at 1:58:05 for the half at 21.1km.

So I had hit my target of sub-2. This was around 25 minutes faster than my time a year before (albeit that was in post-blizzard conditions and under-trained/over-stressed).

The Asics training plan which I had followed pretty closely - had done its stuff well enough.  Looking at other's published half times for that first leg, they look to be 10-15 mins below their best HM times, so I can count this one as equivalent to sub-1:50 I think!

I handed over to my partner Paula - who was doing the second leg again this year. And I smiled happily at what I felt was a good outing!

[part 3 follows]
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A Moyleman For All Seasons - by OutAlongTheRiver - 11-02-2019, 07:53 AM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by Antonio247 - 23-02-2019, 06:23 AM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by OutAlongTheRiver - 20-03-2019, 08:16 AM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by marathondan - 20-03-2019, 11:36 PM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by marathondan - 24-03-2019, 09:02 PM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by Charliecat5 - 24-03-2019, 05:17 PM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by Antonio247 - 24-03-2019, 09:59 PM
RE: A Moyleman For All Seasons - by Charliecat5 - 27-03-2019, 09:44 AM



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