Michael

1200m: 4:41 (too fast)
1000m: 4:03 (too fast)
800m:  3:13 (slow)
600m:  2:23 (too slow)
400m:  1:23 (fine)
200m:  0:31 (fine)

 

Brief comment:

It is my first time doing the long session and I haven't been to Olympic Park for about 2 months. 

have quite improvement so far although I hope I could run faster.

nice to catch up with Terence and his frd.

also good to meet some new faces in today's human velocity training.

 

Now I have to start doing my presentation + 1500words essay dues on Thursday..... 

24km for today's long run. My legs were feeling great this morning, so I decided to join the "medium group" in order to boast my average pace.

I wore my belt again with one bottle of Gel (2 packs) and one bottle of powerade (about 300ml). I pretty adapt such "extra weight" though I am not able to drink during the run.

Nice to meet Dave today as it is his first time joining the Sunday long run. Rob was the run leader for medium group and he wanted everyone to make it a negative split (probably 4:50m/km 1st 12km and 4:40 for the second). I expected I should not catch up with them so I decided to stay back.

 

I do agree "medium" group is obviously a fast group while "slow" group is not slow at all. Dave seems feeling the same way with me even though he could follow the group at the 1st half pretty easily. I was leaped behind as usual for the whole run and it was the water break could I get the chance to catch them for a short while. So far they finished first 12km for 56min+ while I made it 57min+. Dave and two runners decided to slow down a bit for the second half as they both had a hard session yesterday, so I was fortunate enough to run with the companies today. That's really good as I am a idiot who would get lost easily. Finally we finished 2nd half with 59min (running time) with two water break, which was absolutely positive split. I have no idea to make it negative as I have already made my PB of the 12km split time at the first half.

 

No major energy point down today though, I was pretty much a hypocrite by simply relying on engergy Gel and Powerade in order to sustain my pace consistency. It worked but it didn't reflect my actual fitness level. I have to join this Sunday Long Run more occasionally in order to improve my endurance.

24/8/08

 

The church's hiking activity was canceled due to the safety issue, so I came and followed MM long run training this morning. Initially I just wanted to do 32km with slow pace, but Ingrid, who ran severval mins faster than me in Sandy Point Half, encouraged me to do 32km LMD instead of 30km LSD. I have no idea why did I have such courage to make such decision, but as you all know, bravery alone is far from enough to complete 32km with medium pace (around 5:00).

 

Today's run started from St Kida Road, to the Tan, along the river, ahead to the coast and turned around, had a brief drive at Albert Park and finished.

 

As I understood I was the slowest and least endurance runner among those experts, I started at the back of the group, aside with a Vienamese who came here for the first time. He was pretty nice to me and gave me a pack of gel after finishing about 11km. He said his friend was the wholesaler of sport stuff so no worry about this. I was grateful to have such energy supply, even though it could only help me to sustain the pace for around 5-6km. I was leaped behind at St Kida Beach track. I think I could only run a bit faster than 6:00m/km after finishing 22km. I was able to rejoin the group at the playground near the beach where they had a pretty long rest there. I was leaped behind once again when they started again, and I got lost when they left the beach track. So I had to find my whole way by reading the notice map. Initially I would like to finish 32km alone, but my legs could not do so when I have run around 30km... even walking was pretty hard for me. So I realised such symptom is so-called "hit the wall" which is an usual case for the fresh runner. I knew I could not force myself at this stage so I decided to walk back for the rest of the route.

 

Eventually I have run about 30km for around 2:34, and walked back to the start for around 20mins. In addition to the water break or sth, I have spent more than 3hrs for this "run", which is fantastic but I am better to bring some gels for the next long run session.       

I am happy I am able to speak in tutorials this week, although most of them are just bull shit. At least I am feeling to be a human now.

 

I appreciate everyone in today's tutorial to tolerate a hypocrite's presentation. He tried pretty hard to impress the tutor.... by making something different with previous presenter, for instance, double the presenting time.

 

I am sure that he is a absolute diligent guy. However, like some Hong Kong guys here, he is a bit narrow-minded as all his mind is just about studies. I still remember his immediate response after sitting a 3-hours accounting examination last semester: to discuss with a guy behind him SERIOUSLY. How the hell he still had so much energy left. I am sure he could finish a full marathon pretty easily if he transfer such mental energy into fitness. Probably those wonderings are too far from his presentation topic, but I guess everyone would have no interest to know the content of his attempt to impress the tutor.

 

I have done something fantastic (at least I believe it) that I asked question at the end of the session. What I asked is something about the relationship between his country and the company  entry strategy in this case. Surely it wasn't an offensive question but it revealed the fact that he is known nothing besides the number and textbooks, like some diligent Hong Kong guys here. He responsed my "question" quickly before I have finished it. His "answer" was terrific though, it was the tutor who get him back from the Mars to my own question.

 

Although it was my sole speaking for today, I really feel like human now as I feel like more to be myself than that of those genius. I live therefore I am, neither getting a busy living, nor getting a busy dying.