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Comeback run strategy for tomorrow?
Hi. I have been laid low by a cold for the past 8 days but feel like I am ready to make it to a 5KM race tomorrow. Any ideas how I should plan this race. I want to run it in under 24 mins (I guess that is like 7:40 mile) do you think I should hold back in the first couple Ks?
Let’s see what I can suggest…
A cold for a week is a double edged sword.
If you rest for a week before an important race then you are full of energy and recovered enough from your training to really go for it. Any little problems should have cured themselves and you are refuelled – if your previous training was good you should be in your peak condition. Obviously you can’t rest for 8 days every week and hope to get a good time each weekend – so the rest period has to follow a period of good training.
So you have had 8 days rest… which should be good apart from the next point
After having a cold. A cold does more than you think for a runner. You don’t sleep so well for the week which slows recovery from day to day living, to fight the cold your body uses it’s fuel stores (the heat rise in a flu is caused by this) and you might not eat so well – leaving your fuel reserves a bit depleted.
So 8 days rest and a cold – the best and worse you can have I think. If you look at it you might say that they balance each other and you should be able to run a normal training run paced race.
I would enter the race but forget the time. Treat it like a training run with other people.
However it is a race… I ran a 5k "Fun Run" at the end of last year and as I left the flat I said to the GF "This is a fun run, I will start in the middle, jog round and have a laugh with the other runners" and then we all lined up and I ’somehow’ ended up on the front row… well that was it, the red racing mist came along and as 1 lad raced away I thought "I can catch him" and that was the last of the fun run idea of jogging round!
What I am saying there is that you can go out tomorrow thinking you will treat it as a fun training run, but when you line up, well it turns into a race…..
So what I would suggest is to leave the watch at home (if you run with one). When you set off run the first part thinking "I can run faster", for the first 750m to 1km. After that you will be nicely warmed up and know how well you are running and feeling. If you are going OK then start to pick of the people in front, overtake them and pick up your speed.
Holding back in the 2nd KM? I would just start going of it then – if you go slow for 40% of a race, then you aren’t going to get a good time.
whycantigetagoodnickname | Feb 05, 2010
Holding back, as long as you dont hold back too much for reaching your goal, is a frequently used plan after coming back from illness. It allows you to re-assess your new fitness level, albeit lower than before, and allow you to decide when to push hard or lay off. Also, a sub-24 minutes attempt would mean any miles time under 8 minutes per mile, each mile.
James | Feb 05, 2010









