The Gallant Failure Thread
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Apr 2019
2:14pm, 7 Apr 2019
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Wriggling Snake
I ran a race on Thursday, 4 miles, relatively flat. I aimed for 28 mins, 70.6% WAVA. I achieved 28.16, 69.99% WAVA. I think I messed up just a touch, even though I had a good 'race'. You can read about it here:- fetcheveryone.com/blog/26233 I have form, 5k pb 21.01, 10k pb 44.05, HM pb 1:39.05, it's all mental approach right? Any similar races, do you just miss like this? |
Apr 2019
2:42pm, 7 Apr 2019
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Velociraptor
For several years I had a ha;f marathon PB of 2:00:07. I'd slowed down a bit a mile or so from the finish when I passed someone I knew who was struggling and gave them some motivational chat. Wouldn't have happened in the age of GPS.
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Apr 2019
7:45am, 8 Apr 2019
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LindsD
My 5k PB is 26.06 and I'm close to a sub 2 half but unlikely to ever get there....also close to 60% wava. Ugh.
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Apr 2019
8:14am, 8 Apr 2019
22,085 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I started to try to think of something seconds in distance. So 26.06 is 3.2m per second, 19.2m further, over 5000m or 19.2 over 26 minutes it's like 80cm a minute. I helped a Marple runner just take 35 minutes off of her Marathon time, all we changed was one session every two weeks where she did some glute exercises during a run (it was an easy 400m/ marathon paced 400m, glute exercises for about 45 minutes), and added 3 miles or so, into her long runs that were at marathon pace. You can do exactly that sort of thing for a Half. |
Apr 2019
8:26am, 8 Apr 2019
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HappyG(rrr)
I saw a post on the Sub 3 group on FB from this weekend's Manchester marathon a guy got 3:00:01. Omg! Poor guy. And yet, what a fab time. I don't consider these a failure though. Annoying numbers, but great performance overall (including your very-nearly-70% WAVA)!  G
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Apr 2019
2:16pm, 8 Apr 2019
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Garfield
That reminds me of the Standard Chartered City Race in London that I ran several years running, desperately trying to get a sub-30 5k... It starts with a downhill (that we run back up again to the finish, which is a total killer), wanders around the City, then heads back up that hill. One year, I pushed just too hard throughout and ran out of steam in the last 400m, missing a pb by 2 seconds!!
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Apr 2019
2:40pm, 8 Apr 2019
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GordonG
years ago i aimed at a 10K PB to go sub-50. i'd committed every mile marker to memory and hit every one of them perfectly. as i hit the 6 mile mark, it was only then that i remembered that i still had that 0.2 to do... missed out by 27 seconds.. |
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Apr 2019
3:05pm, 8 Apr 2019
31,110 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
27 seconds for 0.2 mile is pretty impressive Gordon - 2:15 min / mile pace. Nice! G
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Apr 2019
3:54pm, 8 Apr 2019
7,704 posts
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GordonG
Hmmmm then in hindsight I must have been a nice bit inside 50 mins at the 6 mile marker, suspect I didn't do the final 321.9 metres in just the 27s
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Apr 2019
8:09pm, 8 Apr 2019
10,320 posts
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Garfield
And another year for the Standard Chartered City Race...was chatting with my speedy friend, ended up starting in the WRONG area with the speedy folk, so ended up running 8:36 (looked down and thought that I'm going to die if I keep this up!!!), 9:36, 10:?? and died at the end!! There was a point where I was keeping up with them...so perhaps I should have ignored my Garmin for the entire time, run to feel and gone with the flow... Who knows what might have happened?
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