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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
"Jack of all (sports), Master of none!"

23 May 2016

parkrun #48 plus a half marathon...

conditions were perfect for parkrun on Saturday...I wasn't aiming to run fast with the half on Sunday so I just went with the flow...

the stats:
start temp/humidity: 8.4/82% (apparent temp same)
start time: 8:05am
total distance: 4.96
total time: 21:47 (official time 21:46)
avg pace: 4:24
total calories: 322
avg HR: 155
recovery HR: 111/55
heartbeats per k: 682

splits: 4:19, 4:26, 4:24, 4:27, 4:11

a bit faster than I probably should have but it felt easy...

26th out of 279 (2 unknown males ahead of me), age 73.66%...1st (!) female out of 142...1st W45-49 out of 22...

headed home to get ready for O duty as well as to load the bikes on my car...

spent just over 90mins with Jodie helping out at the rego desk at Lake Ginninderra and then packing up what could be packed up before grabbing lunch at Emu Bank...

swung past Lennox Gardens while the kids' 1.6k race was on to pick up my number (#199) before parking the car at the Hughie Edwards VC Memorial rest area on the Federal Highway to launch our attack on the caches along the Majura Parkway cycleway...we found 31 out of 32 in about 2:40 and finished riding back to the car in darkness!

yesterday was a perfect day for the YMCA Canberra Half Marathon...my only goal was to go under 1:45 so I was surprised to break my 6 week old PB with 1:41:48 - I skipped 1:42 completely by slashing 1:13 off my previous best!...mum was cheer squad on the day although Jodie popped up between 9-10k on her way to broomball to give me a cheer and take some pics...

the stats:
start temp/humidity: 4.3/99% (apparent temp 2.5)
start time: 8:02am
total distance: 21.07
total time: 1:41:48
avg pace: 4:50
total calories: 1497
avg HR: 155
recovery HR: 116/53
heartbeats per k: 749

5k splits: 23:12, 23:50, 24:49, 24:47

91st out of 347...16th female out of 170...2nd (!) F45-49 out of 30 - Fleur Flannery was the overall female winner in 1:23:13...

it was never my goal to run HM PBs this year...my training focus had been the Wings for Life Run...the ARF HM was meant to be a check to see how I was travelling while yesterday's half was a bonus to finish off the 6 week block...strange how things work out...

we hung around for the presentations then headed to Hudson's at Dickson for brunch before parting ways...

I headed home for a shower then it was off to Jodie and Lisa's place to help them get a dining setting from Sutton (my car has a tow ball) after borrowing a trailer from Lisa's dad...

after that I quickly did the grocery shopping before heading to the Magpies club in Kippax to celebrate Belconnen's 4.5/0.5 win over Yowani in the Brindabella Shield pennant final which they'd played at Goulburn....Tammie was happy to finally have a win (2/1 up) so my days as caddie might be over!

other results from the half:

  • Jacob G 1:17:25.4
  • Lance 1:29:08.9
  • Jen 1:34:31.4
  • Craig D 1:38:37.2
  • Thomo 1:39:31.2
  • Craig W 1:42:59.7
  • Bill 1:57:57.0
  • Jim W 2:02:31.4

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