Wed 6 Apr 2011

Got involved with a Charity Event at work, called a CRAWLATHON. It involved teams running 13.1 miles, Swimming 1.5miles and Cycling 28 miles.Each discipline could have up to 4 members taking over in relay style.  In the running team we had to do 53 laps of the track at Crawleys K2 Leisure centre. Our first team member did 4 laps, the second member did 8 laps, then as the main runner I did 31 laps with the last guy finishing off with 10 laps. I wanted to treat the run as a tempo run trying to run at marathon pace. Did a couple of laps warm up before I started my session. I managed to get into a good rythmn and was bashing out the laps quite well, it was a very hot day 22 degrees, so did start to feel it towards the end. Time for 31 laps was 45.50 which worked out as an average of 1.29 m/m per lap.  Our team ended up with 01:23:32 for half marathon and was the first team to finish. We were 3rd overall in the whole event out of 18 teams.

Distance:  8 Miles             Time: 45:50       Pace 5.55 m/m