My race-kit for my first 21K race this year.
Tomorrow, at 5.30am, I will be flagged off with thousands of other runners in a half-marathon. This will be my first race since Ironman New Zealand 2013, held on 2 March.I will treat this half-marathon as an assessment of my post-226K triathlon fitness. I have about 100 days before the Gold Coast Airport Marathon 2013. This will be my second attempt on this marathon course. In 2011, I missed my Boston Qualifying (BQ) narrowly by about two minutes. I came in at 3:32, after bout of cold cramps on the last six kilometres. This time, I hope to systematically and specifically train come in at under-3:25:00. My target time will be 3:15.
I will be calibrating my fitness with tomorrow's race and adjust my training. With the Cebu Ironman 70.3 in early-August approaching, my training will be dual-pronged with the marathon as my priority. A 1:45 finish will be acceptable, and a sub-1:40 will be a good sign of my residual fitness after 4-5 months of aerobic-centred training (133-138bpm threshold). My strategy is to go easy at about 5 minutes per kilometre for the first 10km, and sub-5 minutes for the remaining 11km. I will check my average heart-rate, and establish a comfortable threshold. It should be interesting physical/mental strength evaluation and anaerobic test, since I resumed training a week after my 15th Ironman. Let us seen what happens...Happy Easter, all!
Looking through the many Triathlete magazines available, plus the wealth of information on the web, you will see that there is a great choice of "Triathlon Training Camps" both at home and abroad. They range from weekends based at your local pool, to week-long, hardcore Ironman beastings somewhere hot and sunny.
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