Race report - Yateley 10k

[Brian Wakem]

I turned up to see that the start and finish have moved
considerably since I last ran this race 2 years ago. Either
the course is now about 10150m or it used to be 9850m.

This course has a long and horrible hill after about 1.5k so
it makes sense to start conservatively. So what did I do? I
shot of in the bloody lead. It felt like such an easy pace
though. After about 400 metres about 5 people had passed me
and I was running behind them. Went through 1k in
3:15.

Had a problem with my left calf after 6k, I was limping
for about 400m. Thankfully it went away, but it did slow
me for a bit.

Not sure where I finished, somewhere around 6th-8th I think.

The time was 34:18, which I'm OK with. I was hoping for <
34, but if the course is overdistance I'll take 34:18. It's
a PB by 44 seconds.

--
Brian Wakem

[Onemarathon]

In article <2i6v4eFju703U2@uni-berlin.de>, Brian Wakem <no@email.com>
wrote:

> I turned up to see that the start and finish have
> moved considerably since I last ran this race 2 years
> ago. Either the course is now about 10150m or it used
> to be 9850m.
>
> This course has a long and horrible hill after about
> 1.5k so it makes sense to start conservatively. So what
> did I do? I shot of in the bloody lead. It felt like
> such an easy pace though. After about 400 metres about 5
> people had passed me and I was running behind them. Went
> through 1k in
> 3:15.
>
> Had a problem with my left calf after 6k, I was limping
> for about 400m. Thankfully it went away, but it did slow
> me for a bit.
>
> Not sure where I finished, somewhere around 6th-8th
> I think.
>
> The time was 34:18, which I'm OK with. I was hoping for <
> 34, but if the course is overdistance I'll take 34:18.
> It's a PB by 44 seconds.

hey, great race, Brian. congrats on the PB. man, if you can
PB with 34
min. WITH some pain and limping, imagine how you'll do on a
perfect day.

Cam

[Dan Stumpus]

Hi Brian:

Nice race. The hill probably cost you some seconds. One
never quite makes it up on the downhill.

Re your quick start, I remember the same thing in a 10k
years ago, when I was leading the pack and thought "this
isn't *that* fast". I deliberately backed off and let a few
guys by on the first hill.

Since everyone seems to be chiming in on the prediction
bandwagon, here's my contribution -- a row from the
Gardner/Purdy table:

Note how close your 5k and 10k times were to the
prediction...

pts 800 1500 3000 5k 10k 20k 30k marathon 700 2:04.6 4:19.6
9:25.3 16:22.1 34:22.5 1:12:13 1:51:26 2:41:02

--Dan

"Brian Wakem" <no@email.com> wrote in message news:2i6v4eFju703U2@uni-
berlin.de...
> I turned up to see that the start and finish have moved
> considerably since
I
> last ran this race 2 years ago. Either the course is now
> about 10150m or it used to be 9850m.
>
> This course has a long and horrible hill after about 1.5k
> so it makes
sense
> to start conservatively. So what did I do? I shot of in
> the bloody lead. It felt like such an easy pace though.
> After about 400 metres about 5 people had passed me and I
> was running behind them. Went through 1k in
> 3:15.
>
> Had a problem with my left calf after 6k, I was limping
> for about 400m. Thankfully it went away, but it did slow
> me for a bit.
>
> Not sure where I finished, somewhere around 6th-8th
> I think.
>
> The time was 34:18, which I'm OK with. I was hoping for <
> 34, but if the course is overdistance I'll take 34:18.
> It's a PB by 44 seconds.
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Wakem

[Anthony]

Brian Wakem wrote:

>Had a problem with my left calf after 6k, I was limping
>for about 400m. Thankfully it went away, but it did slow
>me for a bit.
>
>Not sure where I finished, somewhere around 6th-8th I
>think.
>
>The time was 34:18, which I'm OK with. I was hoping for <
>34, but if the course is overdistance I'll take 34:18. It's
>a PB by 44 seconds.
>
Nice result Brian. Congrats on the PB.

Watch out for the calf. I felt a calf twinge on a run a few
years ago, and after it seemed OK. The following week I
strained it badly and was out for a few weeks. Might be
worth trying some stretches and some massage of the area
that was troubling you.

Anthony.

[Edward]

Anthony <anthony@mail.biu.ac.il> wrote in message news:<40BEF03C.1000907@mail.biu.ac.il>...
> Brian Wakem wrote:
>
> >Had a problem with my left calf after 6k, I was limping
> >for about 400m. Thankfully it went away, but it did slow
> >me for a bit.
> >
> >Not sure where I finished, somewhere around 6th-8th
> >I think.
> >
> >The time was 34:18, which I'm OK with. I was hoping for <
> >34, but if the course is overdistance I'll take 34:18.
> >It's a PB by 44 seconds.
> >
> Nice result Brian. Congrats on the PB.
>
> Watch out for the calf. I felt a calf twinge on a run a
> few years ago, and after it seemed OK. The following week
> I strained it badly and was out for a few weeks. Might be
> worth trying some stretches and some massage of the area
> that was troubling you.

A good massage that you can do yourself is to sit on a chair
with the foot of your good leg on a low table in front. Now
cross the bad leg over the good leg so that the painful
place on the calf rests on the edge of your patella (knee
cap). Now press down hard and perform a small circular
motion with your bad leg. It should hurt like blazes, like a
really deep massage. But it really does the job (though
don't do it just after an injury - leave a couple of days.)

Great run BTW.

Edward
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