Run 86. Tram route 72. 16/3/2020.
What appeared on the surface to be an ideal day for a good time, quickly turned on its head as a number of the negative learnings from past runs started to appear. A simple transit on a couple of trains got me to Camberwell and then a 1.5km first leg got me to the start of the 72 tram line. But by then the heat had started and combined with the hills that have apparently always been there, my heart rate got high quickly.
I pushed on trying to maintain a reasonable pace but that meant my heart rate didn’t really stabilize and that would be an issue later. With the Corona Virus ramping up I was keen to get back into the city before peak hour and that probably contributed to me keeping the pace up. I also had an early head start on tram number 198 that left the start of the trip back into the city just after me and it wasn’t until the 8km point of the run that it caught me. Racing the tram was also not a great ideal.
Finally things started going my way towards the end. St Kilda Road was well shaded, drinking taps started to appear and when I finally got back into the CBD, a single short Garmin kilometer helped my time a bit.
Finished the run with a giant slurpee which was perfect and with a time of 1:43:30 it wasn’t too bad – just hard and felt crap afterwards.
My Three Learnings
Combining bad learnings results in a bad run.
High heart rate early in a run spells trouble.
Slurpees on a hot day is the perfect recovery drink.