Trim Track 2 Mile
Date: 16th July 2007
Conditions:
Run Type: Tempo
Notes: Whilst in the pub on Sunday, the Football team came in and, was telling me about some running they had been doing in training. They had been doing the Shipley Park ‘Trim Track Mile’, which is of course a one mile circuit of trail running, which incorporates inclines and declines. The best time was set by one of the healthier lads on team, Matt Britt who ran the mile in 5.33. This of course is a very respectable time, but this got me going, so I decided I must beat it.
Of course I had nothing to time myself against or nobody to race until my new ‘Garmin Virtual Training Partner’ arrives, so I used the next best thing. I roped a couple of mates into doing the course with me, but on bikes. We set a challenge for them to complete two laps to my one.
After a one lap warm up to scope out the course we set off up the first hill and this was where I failed my attempt. Within fifteen seconds I had failed my attempt. I had nobody to pace myself against so I went out ‘Gung Ho’, and flew up the first hill, however at the top I was shattered. It soon became clear that the fitness I have is far different to the fitness required for this type of run.
Once at the top of the hill I felt my arms go very tingly and I felt faint so I had to ease off. I coasted down the hill I should have sprinted down and once at the bottom I really eased off as I realised that tactically, I had got this run wrong from the word go. However I am not worried as once my new training partner comes I know that my pacing will be altered to the task ahead and soon enough I will go to the training session and show them how its done.
For now however it is back to my regular long distance training, because at the end of the day I am not training for a 1500m race, I am training for a Marathon.
Run time: 16:01 *CR
Pace: 8:01 / mile
Days to New York Marathon: 110
“No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”
New York City
"Running 26 miles around this place.....I can think of nothing better"
The Five Boroughs
"There's more to this place than Manhattan"
Staten Island
"Only the first half mile is spent on Staten Island as you immediately leave across the Varrazano-Narrows bridge into Brooklyn"
Brooklyn
"Almost half the race is spent in Brooklyn, where many different neighbourhoods and cultural changes are passed through"
Queens
"The race enters Queens at exactly the half way point by crossing the Pulalski Bridge, over Newton creek, where you get your first amazing view of the City. The next 3 miles are spent here until crossing the challenging Queensboro Bridge over the East river."
Manhattan
"The first of two visits into Manhattan comes at mile 16 as you leave the Queensboro Bridge. Greeted by thousands of screaming spectators makes this one of the most memorable moments of the race, before the 4 mile stretch up First Avenue towards the Bronx"
Bronx
"At mile 20 you cross the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx where little over a mile is run before returning to Manhattan across the Madison Avenue Bridge, where you see the Yankee Stadium, which has to be the highlight of the short trip across the Harlem river"
Manhattan 2
"As you arrive back in Manhattan the course proceeds down Fifth Avenue for 3 miles before entering Central Park for the final push and that moment that will last forever."
Varrazano-Narrows (Staten Island-Brooklyn)
Pulalski Bridge (Brooklyn-Queens)
Queensboro Bridge (Queens-Manhattan)
Willis Avenue Bridge (Manhattan-Bronx)
Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-Manhattan)
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