Perth Marathon 
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Perth Marathon
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Wanneroo Nationals 8km Walk 1989,
22min 35 is seasons best 5km for 2008
Another Update;
Sunday 30th November;
Cricket/footy with family at Kings park for about an hour.
Ankle was not too bad.
Saturday 29th November; Tennis at South Perth with family. Ankle a bit sore, but not too bad mostly, some moments of significant pain though, worst one was when I got up too quickly from doing the "I formation" while playing doubles...
2hours of relaxed cross training Saturday night playing tennis with Tim, and his wife Jennifer, Seth,Dad, my wife Kathryn,Sharon and others ...cruisy fun and good...
Update; I slept in and therefore didn't goto 6 inch recon #2 run. Very understandable given what I have done at work this week. Its been a very heavy week. Maybe God didn't want me to go this time.
Also did another short ankle-testing run last night for about 5minutes to catch up with my wife Kathryn as we went on one of our evening walks with Jacob. Ankle was sore on lateral side while running on bitumen, but wasn't on grass, (or on track the other night when I icepacked it prior, or on the trails of 6-inch recon run #1 for more than an hour.) My thoughts are then that maybe if I avoid any road running, and be very careful about uneven ground, I may be able to return to full training and racing, but have to do only track racing until I can raise the money to get it medically assessed properly. The 5km suggests I am good to go fitness wise. Very pleasing result that one. Should I risk 6-inch....????? Maybe...but I think I need 2 good long runs on trails first...Perhaps a 27k and/or 33k would be enough...Have two more opportunities to test ankle at Hills Group on December 6th and 13th...otherwise I am not a starter in 6-inch this year. But fitness side is looking good. I'm thinking maybe I could do the 6-inch and do it well, hopefully I am being realistic there.
Thursday 27th November 2008 AD;
Ran 5,000m at Coker Park in 22min 35secs (HR 195 at end).
2.5k splits 10.59/11.36. Average speed 4min 31 per Km.
Masters Athletics 5,000m at Coker park. (At 34 I was the youngest person in the race!)
Was tossing up all day whether or not to risk the ankle with this 5,000m track run today, but figured I'd probably regret it more if I didn't go than if I tried and failed to finish. Plus going to the Masters was a chance to catch up with my coach from my racewalking days because he is still racewalking there even past his 80th Birthday, and also to show Tim and my Dad the Masters athletics setup, have some good family time. So as I walked out the door at 0530 I had stashed my runnig gear in the car on the way to my l;ast day of callcentre training from 0730, plus some meter reading. Ankle was getting a little sore at meter reading so I knocked off a little early, got changed grabbed some frozen corn from the shops and headed for Coker Park. Put the frozen corn on my ankle which numbed it enough so I could run pain-free.
Had a wonderful night, and did pretty much everything I had hoped to do, plus Tim, my Dad, Jennifer and Grier all came which was awesome!! Very Inspiring to have them there, and of course to see Stan there belting out another walk in his eight decade still going strong! Very special night for me.
Went out strongly as per usual with splits including;
200m 40 secs, 400m 1min 28 800m 3min 03 2k 8 min 30secs.
Then backed off a bit, settled, hung in there, and finished very strongly trying to reel in someone which I did. Had a good battle with Liz Neville towards the end, and eventually had the better of her today in the last 400m, (maybe she was injured or something) which I felt pretty good about beating her as she is probably a better runner than me in recent years (for example her incredible marathon and 40 miler efforts this year.)
Extremely happy with a great run, as it is a seasons best over 5km this year, and only 48 seconds adrift of my November 2004 5,000m track PB of 21.47.
Dilemma now is should I risk trying to go after 6-inch or maybe just stick to track racing, join the Masters since that is a lot safer for my ankle.......or what..very happy with that though..
Wednesday 26th November 2008 AD;
Ran 2km in 9min 37 = 4.48 per k, (HR 159) on hull park course with tracksuit pants on.
posterior part of ankle was a little sore but I think the bandage positioning my Dad did this weekend was a bit better, so maybe that helped this week, felt better than last week, but it still doesnt feel right.
Have 2 more days of meter reading to go for this year, so maybe can finally stop strapping ankle every day like I have since October 12th, and I am getting way sick of! Is it good enough to run on this weekend? I don't know. At best I think its risky, at worst its downright foolish, so I am in one big mental dilemma whether to attempt the 6 inch recon this weekend, heart wants to but brain is telling me I;d probably be a fool to...so what do I do, play it safe or take a risk just wish I had some good medical advice but can't afford to get any...Plus way too busy anyway...
Im thinking about maybe a 5k race on Thursday night, and perhaps the 2nd Six Inch recon run this saturday morning, or maybe I should just can any thoughts of running for the next month or two until I get this ankle right once and for all. Its so frustrating!!!!!!! Tim goes back to USA in 9 days so got to make the most of any opportunities to catch up there, plus try and maximise work opportunities, and hopefully have some much needed rnr during december before meter reading starts again in January. Hopman cup tennis in January too...
Sunday 30th November;
Cricket/footy with family at Kings park for about an hour.
Ankle was not too bad.
Saturday 29th November; Tennis at South Perth with family. Ankle a bit sore, but not too bad mostly, some moments of significant pain though, worst one was when I got up too quickly from doing the "I formation" while playing doubles...
2hours of relaxed cross training Saturday night playing tennis with Tim, and his wife Jennifer, Seth,Dad, my wife Kathryn,Sharon and others ...cruisy fun and good...
Update; I slept in and therefore didn't goto 6 inch recon #2 run. Very understandable given what I have done at work this week. Its been a very heavy week. Maybe God didn't want me to go this time.
Also did another short ankle-testing run last night for about 5minutes to catch up with my wife Kathryn as we went on one of our evening walks with Jacob. Ankle was sore on lateral side while running on bitumen, but wasn't on grass, (or on track the other night when I icepacked it prior, or on the trails of 6-inch recon run #1 for more than an hour.) My thoughts are then that maybe if I avoid any road running, and be very careful about uneven ground, I may be able to return to full training and racing, but have to do only track racing until I can raise the money to get it medically assessed properly. The 5km suggests I am good to go fitness wise. Very pleasing result that one. Should I risk 6-inch....????? Maybe...but I think I need 2 good long runs on trails first...Perhaps a 27k and/or 33k would be enough...Have two more opportunities to test ankle at Hills Group on December 6th and 13th...otherwise I am not a starter in 6-inch this year. But fitness side is looking good. I'm thinking maybe I could do the 6-inch and do it well, hopefully I am being realistic there.
Thursday 27th November 2008 AD;
Ran 5,000m at Coker Park in 22min 35secs (HR 195 at end).
2.5k splits 10.59/11.36. Average speed 4min 31 per Km.
Masters Athletics 5,000m at Coker park. (At 34 I was the youngest person in the race!)
Was tossing up all day whether or not to risk the ankle with this 5,000m track run today, but figured I'd probably regret it more if I didn't go than if I tried and failed to finish. Plus going to the Masters was a chance to catch up with my coach from my racewalking days because he is still racewalking there even past his 80th Birthday, and also to show Tim and my Dad the Masters athletics setup, have some good family time. So as I walked out the door at 0530 I had stashed my runnig gear in the car on the way to my l;ast day of callcentre training from 0730, plus some meter reading. Ankle was getting a little sore at meter reading so I knocked off a little early, got changed grabbed some frozen corn from the shops and headed for Coker Park. Put the frozen corn on my ankle which numbed it enough so I could run pain-free.
Had a wonderful night, and did pretty much everything I had hoped to do, plus Tim, my Dad, Jennifer and Grier all came which was awesome!! Very Inspiring to have them there, and of course to see Stan there belting out another walk in his eight decade still going strong! Very special night for me.
Went out strongly as per usual with splits including;
200m 40 secs, 400m 1min 28 800m 3min 03 2k 8 min 30secs.
Then backed off a bit, settled, hung in there, and finished very strongly trying to reel in someone which I did. Had a good battle with Liz Neville towards the end, and eventually had the better of her today in the last 400m, (maybe she was injured or something) which I felt pretty good about beating her as she is probably a better runner than me in recent years (for example her incredible marathon and 40 miler efforts this year.)
Extremely happy with a great run, as it is a seasons best over 5km this year, and only 48 seconds adrift of my November 2004 5,000m track PB of 21.47.
Dilemma now is should I risk trying to go after 6-inch or maybe just stick to track racing, join the Masters since that is a lot safer for my ankle.......or what..very happy with that though..
Wednesday 26th November 2008 AD;
Ran 2km in 9min 37 = 4.48 per k, (HR 159) on hull park course with tracksuit pants on.
posterior part of ankle was a little sore but I think the bandage positioning my Dad did this weekend was a bit better, so maybe that helped this week, felt better than last week, but it still doesnt feel right.
Have 2 more days of meter reading to go for this year, so maybe can finally stop strapping ankle every day like I have since October 12th, and I am getting way sick of! Is it good enough to run on this weekend? I don't know. At best I think its risky, at worst its downright foolish, so I am in one big mental dilemma whether to attempt the 6 inch recon this weekend, heart wants to but brain is telling me I;d probably be a fool to...so what do I do, play it safe or take a risk just wish I had some good medical advice but can't afford to get any...Plus way too busy anyway...
Im thinking about maybe a 5k race on Thursday night, and perhaps the 2nd Six Inch recon run this saturday morning, or maybe I should just can any thoughts of running for the next month or two until I get this ankle right once and for all. Its so frustrating!!!!!!! Tim goes back to USA in 9 days so got to make the most of any opportunities to catch up there, plus try and maximise work opportunities, and hopefully have some much needed rnr during december before meter reading starts again in January. Hopman cup tennis in January too...
posted by trailblazer777 | 11/26/2008 09:27:00 pm
6 Comments:
Nice work TB,
Was that a WAMC run?
You've still got some speed there.
Thanks Epi. yeah I was very pleased with that run. Fairly encouraging result.
It was a Masters race Epi, so not a WAMC run.
Nice race Jonathon! I think with your speed, stick to the track racing for a while.
Or, you could do what I do - track training/racing and just run/walk 6' on 'experience' and treat it as an on-the-day adventure.
Agree with Ewen, just stick with short races for now (1500, mile, 3k, 5k). The effort won't take a lot out of you.
I think doing 6-inch with a dodgy ankle is on the risky side.
I agree with you Sling, it certainly is on the risky side, and my Dad has already told me he thinks I shouldn't do it. One thing is for sure; if I do do it, and I get significant pain I will not hesitate to do a DNF this time. I will not try to continue like I did in Melbourne in October.
I'd add my agreement in sticking to the shorter stuff. I suspect you will also have a lot of fun as your times will probably come down pretty quickly with some regular speedwork.
On the ankle front, you may not get a great benefit from the medical opinion right now, other than being told you shouldn't have done so much on it so early. It's unlikely to be fractured given that you were able to keep walking on it in melbourne, and apart from some proprioception and strengthening exercises, physio probably wouldnt offer that much more at this stage, especially given the cost and your lack of finances.
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