I hate bonking
Time 9am
Start place gym downtown
Weather conditions: 10 C breezy, overcast with intermittent showers.
Distance 20km
Path gym-Notre Dame-De La Montagne-Bridge-Irlandais-Pierre Dupuis-Pont De la Concorde-Tour de L'ile-Jacque Cartier-De Lorimier-De Maisoneuve-Papineau- 1.5 laps of Lafontaine park-Rachel-Olmstead until Peel exit-gym.
Time to completion: Bah... about 2:15:00
Objective: LSD run with heart rate less than 152bpm
What I ate: two bananas, no yogurt
How much sleep I had the night before: 7 hours
What I wore: Nike white run cap. Blue sugoi long sleeve, NB blue short. wright sock, White Asics Nimbus V
Preconditions: Just recovering from a cold. Intermittent runny nose as and dry cough. I need to remmeber to take cough syrup with expectorant to manage this for the next run.
I felt fine starting off. I considered the initial difficulty just part of my warmup process. The temperature was slightly cooler than I anticipated
For the first 10km the effort was consumerate with the heart rate that I was expecting. Following that, the winds picked up and everything starting to decompose. My posture, cadence (turnover) gait. Everything that I had taken as a given was put into question. I had to stop several times for walk breaks. *sigh* I hate gallow-wimping.
Upward drift brought the rate close to 160bpm. As soon as I would take a walk break, I could see the rate drop quickly but not below 130. I wasn't short of breath but I was running out of gas- fast.
I didn't break any water and I felt a viscous film forming on my lips. I fault myself for not having eaten that yogurt and not having brought a water supply with me.
Even as I type this, 2 hours later, after having transitioned properly (strech, shower, eat), fatigue has not left my body yet.
Thoughts during race: heat training is something I need to do.
posted by Turtleboy @ 1:40 PM
2 Comments:
Water is what you need to do! Actually Gatorade would have done you some good. If it's not IN you....
Now what we all want to know is:
What did you eat after your run? Details and pictures please. Recipe if necessary.
;)
Hi Eve,
You're absolutely correct on that one. Definitely a water supply (and/or an electrolyte solution) would have changed the outcome of this run. I know better than that which makes this run all the more frustrating.
Post recovery, the first thing I consumed post run was my Endurox R4 solution. After the transition, I headed off to Chinatown from some nummy numbs (Egg tart, Cha siu bow, guy may bow, but-ah roll, bak tong go) for home honest ;)
Munched on a banana and an apple on the way home and had lunch (rice and soup).
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