East Leake Aquathlon 2022
September 25th 2022
(400m pool swim, 5k run)
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Times
Total time: 00:30:38
Standings
Gender category: 2/17 12%
Total time: 00:30:38
Standings
Gender category: 2/17 12%
Overall category: 13/59 22%
Draycote 20 2017
September 24th 2017 20 mile run I booked the Draycote 20 as a "warm-up" for the Birmingham Marathon, and it certainly was that. The sun shone as we drove to the venue (after a 20 minute detour due to me having read B32 as B23 - oops!) and I was quite happy wondering around in a vest and t-shirt pre-race (always a bad sign!). Parking paid for I headed towards the start, then realised this was actually about a mile on, so I broke into a light jog. At this point, I realised that I still had a case of the sniffles - after having been ill the previous week - and my chest was putting up a bit of resistance too. Dropping back to a walk once I had enough people behind me to be sure the race wouldn't start without me, I made my way to the start, and before long, we were off. I settled my HR in Z2, and had a fairly comfortable first lap (and a bit). By lap 2 my HR was already starting to creep up, simultaneous to my pace dropping. This vicious cycle I find very hard to c...
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