Well, that's the first race for 2012 done and dusted. It's a PB for the distance (which is 16 km, but GPS always loses some of the distance because it treats curves as line segments - it's a balancing act between battery life, sampling rate and accuracy) but not quite as good a PB as I was hoping for. Still, a PB is a PB. And the course wasn't completely flat.
It was a beautiful morning - an autumn morning, despite the month, but a beautiful autumn morning - and the course is really nice, set in a shard of bush/parkland on the upstream Georges River near Bankstown Airport. Running on cycle tracks can be problematic, but the cyclists were thin on the ground this AM.
I don't think I can run a lot harder in some ways. I think this is the highest sustained heart rate for any of my races, which I suppose means training is working, and I'm sure there is some theoretical - practical - limit on heart rate. IF I can't run harder, then I have to think about different ways to run faster.
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