The Golden Gate Challenge is done and dusted and now I must prepare for the next challenge. Before I move on I want to share a few stats from the stage race:
Day1
Day2
Day3
Day
1
|
Day
2
|
Day
3
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Total
for Race
|
|
Distance
|
27km
|
29km
|
17km
|
73km (45.3 miles)
|
Time
|
06:11:50
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05:56:05
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03:27:42
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15:35:37
|
Calories Burnt
|
4198
|
3731
|
2090
|
10019
|
Heart Beats
|
52440
|
48082
|
27420
|
127942
|
Max Heart Rate
|
180bpm
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171bpm
|
156bpm
|
|
Max Altitude
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2562m (8405ft)
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2312m (7585ft)
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2398m (7867ft)
|
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Elevation Gain
|
1343m (4406ft)
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1414m (4639ft)
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864m (2835ft)
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3621m (11880ft)
|
I captured all of this with my Polar RS800CX and as far as I know it is quite accurate. I will still do a proper review of the Polar. So far I am very impressed and enjoy all the stats a lot.
Below are the profiles with the speed (or lack thereof). This was slow but hard running indeed. I was clearly much faster on the downhills!
Below are the profiles with the speed (or lack thereof). This was slow but hard running indeed. I was clearly much faster on the downhills!
Day1
Day2
Day3
So that is it for the Golden Gate Challenge. My next race is the Sani Stagger Marathon on 24 November. I ran this race in 2010 and although it is extremely hard, I enjoyed greatly. More hills waiting... :)
Happy training everyone!
Happy training everyone!
12 comments:
Day 3, whilst having the lowest heart rate and least calories burnt looks horrendous with that climb. On a normal day that would have been OK but after the preceding 2 that is amazing. Once again, well done for a fantastic report and effort on your part.
Jerry
Those elevation profiles make me tired just looking at them! :) The views were sure worth all the work, though. What an amazing race. You have a lot of really cool racing opportunities there.
I should never complain about hills after looking at your race elevations! Amazing.
That's a lot of elevation gain and loss!
The chart of the Golden Gate Challenge is impressive!
I look formard to following your next hilly race!
Post scriptum: what about the internazional running flag of friendship? Is it still in France?
Now I am even more impressed! Good luck with the training for the Sani!
What would you do if your course didn't have hills? I'm sure you'd feel like something was missing.
Very impressive and you handled it so well. Proud of you my love!
I'm going to shut up about hills now... congrats on your awesome running!
Those are some great stats! I have been wondering how Polar stacks up to Garmin. Looks like it gives great data. Looking forward to the review.
Nice work in the race!! That's a lot of heartbeats!
Sorry, you lost me at 10,000+ calories burned....I hope you ate a thousand cupcakes after to celebrate :).
Go ahead and eat a few gallons of ice cream with those 1,000 cupcakes. Wow! Congrats!
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