Dublin City Marathon
Ran with Valerie Glavin for the first 11 miles or so, then pulled ahead with some consistent miles at close to 7 minute pace. Rock solid up to 23 miles, then suffered a step change (downwards!) in stamina.
- 13:46 – quick opening pair.
- 7:12
- 7:20
- 6:52 – mile 5
- 7:20
- 7:04
- 7:11
- 14:14 – trying to hold it at 7:10 but fluctuating quite a bit, mile 9 & 10 with 7:07 average.
- 7:12
- 7:21
- 7:09 – pulled ahead of Val, running on the shoulder of another runner.
- 6:58
- 7:07 – mile 15, shoulder to shoulder with the other guy.
- 7:03
- 7:14
- 14:09 – kept missing the mile markers!
- 21:29 – up to mile 22; my anonymous companion started to ease ahead a little after mile 21 but I was still feeling okay…
- 7:04 – … as evidenced here!
- 7:49 – but here comes the crash.
- 7:38 – picked up a discarded half-full bottle of Powerade which gave me a little spurt for this one.
- 8:04 – with the sub-3:10 fairly safe, please just let the finish line come…
- 1:46
Finish: 3:09:00
Corofin 8k
Pretty solid new 8k personal best…
- 3:39
- 3:42
- 3:55
- 3:44
- 3:48
- 3:47
- 3:57 – the only shocker. No excuse, I just lost concentration. Could have broken 30 minutes.
- 3:40 – gave it all but I wasn’t exactly dead crossing the finish line.
Finish: 30:12
West of Ireland marathon
8am on Saturday 4th December. Four and three-quarter loops of a foggy, icy Salthill. The first loop was the short one – we started pretty slowly. :-)
- 40.34
- 40.42
- 40.27
- 40.23
- 39.28 – Included a brief toilet stop AND I got knocked down (as in, fully sprawled out on the ground with bloody cuts to my knee and elbow) by an over-enthusiastic dog at approximately 25.8 miles, so I was fairly happy with the strong finish!!
Finish: 3:21:34