I am having flashbacks of Wilhelm/Yam.

I miss Yamhelm

I did my first half marathon on Sunday.

Obviously I chose the most flattering photo.



Actually it was a really hard race - it has been cold all through spring and then Sunday is the hottest day of the year by a long way, with no cloud cover. So many people just collapsed during the race and were being revived by medical staff. People were even being pushed over the finish line in wheelchairs.

This is what I actually looked like near the end:

Stop wetting, kame.

Also, will, what was the route? I did 21k two weeks ago. Planning on doing my first marathon this year (I was supposed to do it last year but then I could not).

I have to lose some weight beforehand, though. I have put on a few pounds because of crossfit and mma and, well, eating like a pig

It was through Hackney in London.

Here's a map of the route:


I felt like I hadn't trained enough. My performance was disappointing even for a first half marathon I thought.

I was on track for a 1:45 until about 17km when a combination of heat exhaustion, a blister and knee pain meant I slowed to a walk. It was hard to get started again after that - and I went through a few phases of running and then fast walking. I ended up with a 1:59:56. My 10k PB is 41:54 so I was pretty disappointed.

We can't see what you looked like after.

Cool. Little elevation, though, 5'49'' is not bad ;o


I ran this:


El Salvador's on the hill side of a country but this route was the one with the most insane elevations I've ever done. It killed me. One can only advance so much when the street you're running seems like a vertical wall

6'43''pace.

Wow that's over 100m climbs - probably in quite warm weather too? I would really struggle.

Hackney is pretty flat, but the small inclines felt worse due to the heat and poor conditioning on my part.

I was going at a pace where my heart rate is normally between 140-150 but on the day it was abnormally high - between 160-170 at the same pace. I think it was the heat exhaustion. Check out the stats below - my heart rate starts to rise above my pace around 7.5km, then I run in anaerobic conditions for almost 10km. So, respiration would have been via glycolysis rather than Krebs cycle. Then between 16-17km my glycogen stores were depleted and I "hit the wall".

That's my interpretation of the stats anyway.



And I've got no more photos Dem0n - only data. =/

Well, april's average was around 32°C. So a bit warm. It was early in the morning, though, so I dare say it was only around 25°C-28°C.

I think that running anaerobically around 10km was what screwed you up and not the poor conditioning

Also, dem0n meant that the first image you posted got broken.

One of the coolest races in here is called "urban challenge" (translation)
We get to enter a military base and do cool obstacles.



Sorry, I get excited when talking about running

Also, in the first two instances of this race (it's yearly) the soldiers you see there used to randomly shoot and place fireworks so they exploded and scared us. But I think someone got a heart attack and they stopped doing it

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Wat

pics https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154141690864596.1073741848.514289595&type=1&l=96a05b9340

Direct link to your facebook? Ballsy move.

Here's me right before I beat AZ, Roy, and Sac in a race.

Your face is really cute there Wing Zero. God damn. Jelly.

are you fucking serious you guys met up are you being real right now I can't even handle punctuation I am so mad why was I not invited

Because someone decided they were too good for the SEN Skype group, LMAO.

Where / When was this?

Oh.

If that was the reason, then fair trade.

Don't worry Kame next time I'm in Springs we can hang if you want. :3

I was a chunk.


Wow you live pretty close now, tempted to meet you for a drink someday in the future.