| Date/Time of Run
| Sunday 8 Jan 2006 - 2.38 pm.
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| Location
| Werribee River & Skeleton Creek (Virgillia, Tarneit, Hogans,Thames,Werribee River, Shaws, Tarneit, Railway, Derrimut,Heaths,Skeleton Creek, Sayers, Derrimut)
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| Distance
| 24.46 km
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| Time
| 2:08:43
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| Pace
| 5:15 /km
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| Heart Rate Max/Avg
| 151/142
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| Weather
| 25.2 C Clear, Wind S 12/17 kts. Rel Hum 54%. QNH 1016 (WeatherZone.com.au)
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| Equipment
| Garmin Forerunner 301, mobile phone, fuel belt (4 x 200 ml bottles Gatorade) & dried apricots.
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| Further Data
| Motionbased.com
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| Post Run
| 100 Sit-ups
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A good solid 24.5 km run today. As on Friday I decided to mix things up a bit today. I decided to run a route I've never run before and the only plan was the distance being around the 16 or 20 km mark. I really was making things up as I went along. I suppose running solo makes this possible.
Okay, okay, I know, I should have probably run this run earlier in the day but with one thing and another that wasn't possible. It was a warmish day and therefore decided to wear my fuel belt and loaded it with 4 bottles (800 ml all up) of Gatorade and stashed some dried apricots in a spare pocket. My re-hydration plan was simple, every 20 mins drink half a bottle (about 100 ml). The plan worked or I think it did. From about the 20 km point onwards I was stuffed, the heat got to me and simply slowed down.
The Garmin unit as regards the HRM did not miss a beat today. I think I've finally worked it out why it was playing up. Basically, I wasn't wearing the chest strap tight enough, that's all it was.
Stats as of 8 Jan 2006
| Weight
| 76.4
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| Prev 7 Days
| 84.6
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| Prev 28 Days
| 268.7
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| Jan 2006
| 97.1
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| YTD
| 97.1
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| Monthly Avg 2006
| 97.1
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| Weekly Avg 2006
| 48.6
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| Total (2001 on)
| 7838.2
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A good solid 24.5 km run today. As on Friday I decided to mix things up a bit today. I decided to run a route I've never run before and the only plan was the distance being around the 16 or 20 km mark. I really was making things up as I went along. I suppose running solo makes this possible.
Okay, okay, I know, I should have probably run this run earlier in the day but with one thing and another that wasn't possible. It was a warmish day and therefore decided to wear my fuel belt and loaded it with 4 bottles (800 ml all up) of Gatorade and stashed some dried apricots in a spare pocket. My re-hydration plan was simple, every 20 mins drink half a bottle (about 100 ml). The plan worked or I think it did. From about the 20 km point onwards I was stuffed, the heat got to me and simply slowed down.
The Garmin unit as regards the HRM did not miss a beat today. I think I've finally worked it out why it was playing up. Basically, I wasn't wearing the chest strap tight enough, that's all it was.
Stats as of 8 Jan 2006
3 comments:
That's a good long run, well done!
I dusted off my bike & was riding along Skeleton Creek on Sunday at about 5.30pm, so didn't miss you by much!
Another thing you can do when you're near Skeleton Creek is cross Sayers Rd & enter Westbourne Grammar's Earth Science reserve (close gates behind you as there are horses about). There is a clay track around the circumfrence of the reserve - ?1.4kms (guess).
I've done laps around there a few times to get some soft surface running in. Technically I guess it's trasspassing, so you might not be interested.
Again on the North side of Sayers Rd, if you keep going down Heaths Rd it dead-ends at more bike path which runs through the new housing estate along Skelton Creek - worth discovering for variety (once I saw a couple of emus at the back of the estate).
I will come to the street o on Tuesday, but may not run (I tried out my new shoes on Friday & got some knee pain as a result).
Well done. 2:30pm on the other side of the bay felt very warm. I would have turned back home after the first 3km.
Mmmm, dried apricots. I've never thought of carrying them before. Must try it.
And thanks once again for the sit- up reminder!
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