Saturday 2 February 2008

Will I ne’er get fast again?

Posted by speedygeoff on Saturday, February 02, 2008 with
Speedygeese track results from Thursday night:
400 Metres

M55 Geoff Sims 62.25 84.4%
M50 Ken White 64.64 78.7
W55 Maureen Rossiter 76.06 81.6

1500 Metres
M45 Mick Horan 4:41.06 84.2%
M50 Ken White 5:02.42 82.5
M60 Kevin Chamberlain 5:12.80 84.6
M45 Roger Pilkington 5:20.38 74.5
M55 Geoff Moore 5:22.90 80.6
M50 Gary Bowen 5:29.37 73.2
W35 Bronwyn Calver 6:01.27 66.8
W55 Kathy Sims 6:02.72 82.6
M55 Neil Boden 6:08.22 69.5
M65 Tony Booth 6:45.68 69.6
W55 Barbara Tucker 7:27.84 69.8

3000 Metres
M45 Richard Faulks 10:59.74 75.0%
W40 Amanda Walker 13:01.48 67.2
W35 Rachelle Ellis-Brownlee 13:10.13 64.4
W35 Bronwyn Calver 13:18.64 64.7
M50 Gary Bowen 13:19.06 63.0
M60 Geoff Barker 14:32.56 64.4
M65 Tony Booth 14:32.73 68.1


Stromlo training
Today I averaged 3:44 for the km intervals. Like my 1500m times, for the km intervals I am achieving unusual consistency. I am happier being consistently moderately fast than I have been over the last decade or so being quite fast intermittently but being unable to hold that form for any decent period of time. Like two days.

Fixing my PC part two.
With my PC chucking several wobblies each day, it would have taken hours for someone to track down what was happening, fix the root cause of the problem, and clean up any damage. All I am doing is looking for a work-around. Seems I may have found it; removing the hardware acceleration may have done the trick, and hasn’t compromised performance. I will be doing more diagnosis though. Today, if there's time. Meanwhile, the work arounds are working.