Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Mona Fartlek

A nice cool night for a run. Pretty stiff Southerly still blowing off what felt like the snow. Top temp today only 16 degrees, after Saturdays 25.
Did a 1k warmup before I started the session.
Ran from my home up the bike path to the SFS and back again.
Total was 5.15ks in the 20 minutes. Average pace of 3:53 per klm. Pity I couldn't do that on Sunday. And considering the fartlek is effort then float then effort etc, etc...

Did a 2k cool down after finishing.

C2S:
2006- 751st, 2007- 625th. My position. But only 6 seconds faster.
2006- 55mins= 455th, 2007-55mins=363rd.
2006-Top 100=50:03, 2007-Top 100=50:23.
2006-Top 500=55:33, 2007-Top 500=56:52. A huge difference!

Now are we getting slower as runners or was it the heat this year? Any bets on the preferred time being shifted to 56 minutes for 2008!

2 comments:

Tesso said...

Interesting stats there. I vote we all blame the heat :-)

Ewen said...

It wasn't that hot. There have been hotter years.

I doubt if they'll change the preferred time. Although I remember being annoyed when they changed it from 54 down to 52 for a couple of years.

The places in C2S are not that accurate, as A2 and B (first timers) aren't in the newspaper results. A mate of mine ran 51 from the B group one year.