Its now been a couple of hours since I finished the Auckland Marathon so I thought I'd spare five minutes for a quick update.
YAHOOO New marathon PB for me!! Not quite the triumphant stroll that I had been dreaming about, but nevertheless I'm really please with my effort and damn proud of the result.
I've finally put 4 hour marathons into the history books. Today I crossed the line in 3 hours 48 minutes and 48 seconds (by my watch).
I ran quite a strong half marathon and got to the 21k mark in 1 hour 44 minutes, so a little quicker than my goal pace. However as anticipated my conditioning was quite up to scratch and I did start to crumble after 26k's with my k splits slowing down significantly, as I re-visited my unhappy place. Happily I didn't blow to pieces and managed to bring it home in a respectable time. Still room for improvement though!
I'll post a more complete race report in a couple of days when I'm feeling more up to it.
After my first Ultra
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- Kieran Mischewski
- Hi I’m Kieran. In March 08 I became an Ironman. A year later, in February 09 I became an Ultrarunner. But then one day I got challenged to do a mere 10 pullups and I couldn't! Sure I could run for hours on end, but I would sruggle to lift my own body weight (which wasn't all that much) - that didn't seem like real fitness to me. So I started to change what I'd been doing ...
3 comments:
Congratulations! Sub 4 :)
Congrats on the PB! Look forward to the race report. Well done!
Great run!
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