[richardsimkiss]

Bit bored... and interested to see how close people can guess my finish time for tonights Club Race.

Key Facts that may influence your decision:
Tonight's Club Race is a fairly Undulating (mildly hilly) 5miler.
My Current 5 mile Personal Best is 30:47
My Last club race was a pretty flat 4.75miler which I tapered for - I finished in 28:15.
My last rest day was last Friday.
Training since then has included, long 13mi run, steady 5, speedword (11x400m), 8mile club run, football match.
I'm high spirited though muscles feel a bit tired.
The Club has a predicted finish time for me of 31:01

Go on... have a gamble

 

[bairy]

I'll go for 30m 21s 268ms

If I'm right what do I win?

 

[richardsimkiss]

Self respect

 

[Liz3yy]

30,30 I think, go Rich!

 

[roadrunner84]

30 flat. Go on RS!!

 

[richardsimkiss]

50mins until race start... feeling sleepy now :lol:

 

[roadrunner84]

Don't worry, just revel in the knowledge that you could probably sleep through the race quicker than I could run it

 

[JBBury]

I also voted 30-31. I think your exact time on the garmin will be 30:46.27

You are a a fast 5 miler. Quickest 5 miler I've done is 32 minutes, but that was part of a 10 mile run. Never run a one off 5 miler

 

[richardsimkiss]

The unofficial result is in thanks to Mr Garmin...

Mile 1 - 6:15
Mile 2 - 5:34
Mile 3 - 6:02
Mile 4 - 6:23
Mile 5 - 5:43

TOTAL - 29:59

Nothing like scraping through a barrier eh? I'll hopefully be back after me din dins to write a mini race report - if not, looks like a job to do at work in the morning

Congrats to whoever guessed correctly - your prize is in the post :d

 

[JBBury]

Congrats. That's pretty fantastic. I'm impressed. Now you need to go break an hour for 10 miles. If you do that I will be very jealous!

 

[Revenged]

great job...

i bet you'll be fuming if you official time turns out to be 30.01 ...

 

[roadrunner84]

I do believe I was only 1 second out if the unofficial results are anything to go by

Well done RS, I think you deserve the limelight a little more for running that time than I do for guessing it! heh!

 

[Trinity]

woohooo that was me what guessed right

Well done Rich!!!!

 

[Trinity]

Mile 2 was a bit quick tho wasn't it... slight pacing problem there. I reckon you could've gone faster if you had put that time in on mile 4 and gone a little easier in mile 2

 

[Grant]

Well done, cracking time!

Just the 17 mins quicker than my five miler tonight.

 

[richardsimkiss]

It's hard to say really... I ran what I felt was a well paced effort, though on paper it does seem that it was way outta line. lol. I would certainly have to change my original statement of 'fairly undulating' to what I would call Hilly. the course by no means has ascent/descent stats to blow your socks off, but the climbs were long and quite steep whereas the descents were on the whole, very short and sharp - Not condusive to an optimal time.

Mile 1 was mainly a steady climb,
Mile 2 was a slight descent, dropping 25ft over the mile.
Mile 3 was a sharp drop, followed by a steep climb, slight descent and another steep drop.
Mile 4 was a long hard climb, longer than 'the hill' at Glooston, though not quite as steep (but not too far off!), followed by a descent of similar magnitude then a long steady climb for the 2nd half of that mile.
Mile 5 dropped fairly sharply, levelled out, climbed again before a final steady descent to the finish.

I'd like to think if it had been a flat course I could've managed near 5:45 pace. :worried: I defaintely hope official time is 29:59... I started on the start line so not really any margin for error. (or is there!)

JBB - the day I can manage sub 6min miles for 10miles I'll be a happy man I think you're much more likely to reach it first than I am - I just can't seem to translate my shorter distance times/paces to the longer distances ( Methinks I need to shed some more weight!

 

[richardsimkiss]

Official Results are in!!!
And my official time was a rather boring 00:29:59, lol.

Placed 2nd overall, wooohooo! I wasn;t sure of this yesterday as it's done on time rather than finishing position, and a few guys were late to turn up but were still timed

40seconds off the previous course record of 29:19, though that was broken by 1st place who finished in 28:41 - Obviously wasn't a very quick record in the first place though eh!

 

[Trinity]

Official Results are in!!!
And my official time was a rather boring 00:29:59, lol.

Placed 2nd overall, wooohooo! I wasn;t sure of this yesterday as it's done on time rather than finishing position, and a few guys were late to turn up but were still timed

40seconds off the previous course record of 29:19, though that was broken by 1st place who finished in 28:41 - Obviously wasn't a very quick record in the first place though eh!

Fantastic...well done!!!

 

[LEECE]

Well done Richard.

IMPRESSIVE........... how do you do it

 

[richardsimkiss]

I put one foot in front of the other, as quickly as possible until I've covered 5 miles Seems lots of practise helps! :d