Post by gunner on Jul 6, 2009 19:43:43 GMT -5
Perth Marathon 2009
After a fairly solid run at the Bunbury Marathon 6 weeks prior, I had 2 rest day's and then slow easy runs for the rest of that week. The following week I picked up my training basically where I left off 6 weeks before the Bunbury Marathon. Had some really promising sessions leading into the Perth, so I was feeling confident of a PB.
10 day's to go and the family all come down with the flu, long standing joke in the Cumming household is that Dad is a shark, cause he never gets sick. Monday before the marathon Dad gets a sore throat, sh*t it can't be, not now. Codral flu tablets, Vicks vapour drops, Vit B and Multi vitamins all going down the throat at a alarming panicky rate trying top fend off the flu. Friday 2 day's to go, very slight sore throat and slightly runny nose, Saturday no sore throat, nose almost back to normal. ha dodged a bullet there. Carbo loading began on Thursday trying to consume 17,000 kj's or 4500 cal of low fat carbs per day. Weighed approx 77kg's before carbo loading and 78.5 morning of race day. Was trialing a reduced taper of 14 day's.
Sunday 5th July.
Up at 06:00 am pikelets and Honey with a Banana, washed down with a 600 ml Gatorade, checked packed bag and was off, solo this time as Kate and the boy's had footy this morning.Left home 06:25 am with music cranking, a quick 30 min trip to the Marathon club. Arrive just after 7:00am after finding parking. Guts down a handful of lollies and wander off to the start line after stretching, paying particular attention to my hammies that have been causing me grief over the last 12 months (upper hamstring tendonopathy). On the start line met Geoff a guy who I had met at Coral Bay previously, small world, had a quick chat.
Count down begins then we are off and racing. The plan was try to sit on 4:22 klm's for the first 21klms then judged how I felt from there, was finding it a bit of a struggle to maintain the 4:22 min/klm so I decided to sit on 4:26 klm's which I was manging with relative ease, 4 sec/klm doesn't sound much does it. Nose started run like a tap, so a lot bushman's blowing of the nose was required, ran with a guy called Tim for the first 7 klm he had just done the Kep 100klm race about 6 weeks prior, he too wanted to run at around the 4:20 min mark as well, after a about the 7 klm mark he started to struggle so I just stuck to my revised plan of 4:26 min/klm. Hit the 14 klm mark at 1:01:48 and then th 21.1klm mark bang on 1:34:00 and the 28 klm at 2:05:14. Made the mistake of grabbing some chocolate at the Raffles which I promptly spat out due to it clogging up my mouth, tasted nice but.
Felt my strongest between the 20klm and 30 klm stage. The stretch along the freeway I managed to pass 7 people by just turning out consistant 4:26 to 4:30 klm's. Coming under the Narrows was planning to crank it up a bit there but felt a very slight head wind so chose to leave it a bit later, approx 39 klm mark increased the pace to 4:22 klm, then to 4:20 for the last 2 klm's.
Managed a 3:09:56 which I was happy with but what I was most happy with was my consistent min/klm rate during, fluctuating between 4:25 and 4:30 min/klm nearly all of the race.
Interestingly my GPS showed 42.482 klm's I think Epi's was a tad long also.
Once again the weather god's he shone on me when it comes to running a marathon, all 5 marathons have been ran in perfect sunny windless conditions.
Great to catch up with Geoffa,Epi and Clown after the race.
See you all at the C2S in 6 weeks
Gunner
After a fairly solid run at the Bunbury Marathon 6 weeks prior, I had 2 rest day's and then slow easy runs for the rest of that week. The following week I picked up my training basically where I left off 6 weeks before the Bunbury Marathon. Had some really promising sessions leading into the Perth, so I was feeling confident of a PB.
10 day's to go and the family all come down with the flu, long standing joke in the Cumming household is that Dad is a shark, cause he never gets sick. Monday before the marathon Dad gets a sore throat, sh*t it can't be, not now. Codral flu tablets, Vicks vapour drops, Vit B and Multi vitamins all going down the throat at a alarming panicky rate trying top fend off the flu. Friday 2 day's to go, very slight sore throat and slightly runny nose, Saturday no sore throat, nose almost back to normal. ha dodged a bullet there. Carbo loading began on Thursday trying to consume 17,000 kj's or 4500 cal of low fat carbs per day. Weighed approx 77kg's before carbo loading and 78.5 morning of race day. Was trialing a reduced taper of 14 day's.
Sunday 5th July.
Up at 06:00 am pikelets and Honey with a Banana, washed down with a 600 ml Gatorade, checked packed bag and was off, solo this time as Kate and the boy's had footy this morning.Left home 06:25 am with music cranking, a quick 30 min trip to the Marathon club. Arrive just after 7:00am after finding parking. Guts down a handful of lollies and wander off to the start line after stretching, paying particular attention to my hammies that have been causing me grief over the last 12 months (upper hamstring tendonopathy). On the start line met Geoff a guy who I had met at Coral Bay previously, small world, had a quick chat.
Count down begins then we are off and racing. The plan was try to sit on 4:22 klm's for the first 21klms then judged how I felt from there, was finding it a bit of a struggle to maintain the 4:22 min/klm so I decided to sit on 4:26 klm's which I was manging with relative ease, 4 sec/klm doesn't sound much does it. Nose started run like a tap, so a lot bushman's blowing of the nose was required, ran with a guy called Tim for the first 7 klm he had just done the Kep 100klm race about 6 weeks prior, he too wanted to run at around the 4:20 min mark as well, after a about the 7 klm mark he started to struggle so I just stuck to my revised plan of 4:26 min/klm. Hit the 14 klm mark at 1:01:48 and then th 21.1klm mark bang on 1:34:00 and the 28 klm at 2:05:14. Made the mistake of grabbing some chocolate at the Raffles which I promptly spat out due to it clogging up my mouth, tasted nice but.
Felt my strongest between the 20klm and 30 klm stage. The stretch along the freeway I managed to pass 7 people by just turning out consistant 4:26 to 4:30 klm's. Coming under the Narrows was planning to crank it up a bit there but felt a very slight head wind so chose to leave it a bit later, approx 39 klm mark increased the pace to 4:22 klm, then to 4:20 for the last 2 klm's.
Managed a 3:09:56 which I was happy with but what I was most happy with was my consistent min/klm rate during, fluctuating between 4:25 and 4:30 min/klm nearly all of the race.
Interestingly my GPS showed 42.482 klm's I think Epi's was a tad long also.
Once again the weather god's he shone on me when it comes to running a marathon, all 5 marathons have been ran in perfect sunny windless conditions.
Great to catch up with Geoffa,Epi and Clown after the race.
See you all at the C2S in 6 weeks
Gunner
