Race report - Yateley 10k

In article <[email hidden]>, Brian Wakem <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

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

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" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:2i6v4eFju703U2@uni-
berlin.de...

Quoted message said:

I turned up to see that the start and finish have moved
considerably since

I

Quoted message said:

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

Quoted message said:

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

Brian Wakem said:

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.

Anthony <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Brian Wakem said:

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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