Barker runs marathon
Geoff Barker ran 4:18:24 in the Cadbury Marathon. Go dog! (Well, the palindrome of "Barker" would be "Rekrab"!). There is no truth in the rumour that Geoff went to the Cadbury glass-and-a-half marathon expecting it to be 21k, and discovered it was a full marathon too late to pull out.
Report on Monday night training: the first Parliament House session of 2008 saw twenty runners: Alan, Annette, Bronwyn, Carolyne, Cathy, no less than two new Christines, Colin, Ewen, Gary, me, Jodie, Joel, Katie, Kelley, Ken, two Micks, Neil and Yelena run two sets of six 190m sprints with 70m recovery. It was hot but we ran in the shade. There will be more short interval training next week again with short recovery.
Other than this anaerobic work, we are still trying to focus on fast tempo running, and on racing at even pace, i.e. starting at what feels slow, and building up the effort lap by lap to maintain consistent times. When (if!) we get the hang of this, we will switch to ATTACK! mode and see if we can learn surging!
Everyone starts too fast! It's hard to start slowly when no-one else does. But we need to start "slowly" and kill the others off in our races by surging past them, confident that their fast starts mean they will be easier to gobble up.
Geoff Barker ran 4:18:24 in the Cadbury Marathon. Go dog! (Well, the palindrome of "Barker" would be "Rekrab"!). There is no truth in the rumour that Geoff went to the Cadbury glass-and-a-half marathon expecting it to be 21k, and discovered it was a full marathon too late to pull out.
Report on Monday night training: the first Parliament House session of 2008 saw twenty runners: Alan, Annette, Bronwyn, Carolyne, Cathy, no less than two new Christines, Colin, Ewen, Gary, me, Jodie, Joel, Katie, Kelley, Ken, two Micks, Neil and Yelena run two sets of six 190m sprints with 70m recovery. It was hot but we ran in the shade. There will be more short interval training next week again with short recovery.
Other than this anaerobic work, we are still trying to focus on fast tempo running, and on racing at even pace, i.e. starting at what feels slow, and building up the effort lap by lap to maintain consistent times. When (if!) we get the hang of this, we will switch to ATTACK! mode and see if we can learn surging!
Everyone starts too fast! It's hard to start slowly when no-one else does. But we need to start "slowly" and kill the others off in our races by surging past them, confident that their fast starts mean they will be easier to gobble up.
