Today is my last day in the 50-54 Age Category. Tomorrow I turn 55 and still have no prospect of winning my age category races. From what I have seen the competition intensifies as you get older.
Never-the-less I still, after having been running for only a little over 5 years, harbour a belief that there lurks within me the ability to pull another PB out of the hat. I will be extatic if I can do that in Canberra.
For the first time, while training on my own, I actually managed to stick at, and complete a set of fartleks. (2 x 60 sec, 4 x 30 sec, 2 x 60 sec, 4 x 30 sec, 2 x 60sec while doing a 10K ru over rolling hillls) .
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Happy Birthday for tomorrow.
Good news for me though. One less tough rival in the 50 - 54 age group. Although I guess there is always those young 50 year olds taking your place.
What is you PB?
Wow, I didn't realise you were THAT old ;-) You sure don't look it.
I wouldn't worry about the competitors in your new category, you're still giving the young bucks something to worry about.
Have a happy one!
Ah in Canberra 2007 in the M55s you have Trevor Jacobs just turned 55 too, Eagle is having a go, and myself (previous race winner hem hem) to contend with, and that's only the three I know. And I was Susan Hobson's coach for four years before she joined Clohessy! That should give you confidence in her training program!
Happy birthday Eddie! I think you've got Speedygeoff covered. Not so sure about Eagle. Trev will probably run another 2:47, even after thrashing himself at 6'.
Well done on sticking to the program :)
Hey Ewen, whose side are you on here?
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