define your day don't let the day define you - Age PB 40-49H Marathon

So today is my last day in the office - after 10.4 years my role has been made redundant and so I'm off to pastures new - just popping in to collect a few things and go for lunch so with that in mind and the Crazy Bear challenge  in full swing I plumped for a full marathon today - and as my age group PB for the full marathon was only 1:57.1 pace (2:44:43.7 my overall PB is 2:28:30.8 1:45.6 pace) I figured I could break that age group PB easily enough (I did think it was still the Irish record but having just looked at the rankings I discovered Ally Cooper pulled 2:39:06.3 in October 1:53.1 - balls really should have checked that before starting lol) so with a target of 1:54 in mind off I set - had a few moments of doubt - not because of anything other than the ache of such distance - still dug in and kept going - just after 2 hours the fire alarm went off and although one of the instructors popped over and tried to communicate it to be (headphones in) the manager then came over and told me to carry on (only stopped for a moment) so in the end I managed 2 hours 42 minutes 19.9 seconds (was trying to get 2:42:19.5 - 42195 being the marathon distance) this was done at r22 75% HRR for the majority of it - and thanks to Ally I have a new target :o)

CTC r22 (OK probably more like 23) 1k 300m 300m 300m 300m 1k 2r

Still suffering a little from the throat infection/tonsillitis plus very tired this week (sleeping like a log and finding it hard to wake up) so later than I wanted to be into work also leaving at lunch to look after my daughter while wife goes to work (Creche is closed) so decided to up the rate a little from yesterdays CTC and try it at r22. I planned on the 1k's at 1:31.8 pace and the 300's at 1:27.9 - well - managed the first 1k although that was a fight in itself, the 300's I just couldn't get the power down (legs a little tired and throat not feeling the best to get the oxygen in) the last 1k - started ok - I actually decided before going into it I would be happy with sub 1:35 pace for it - I was holding 1:33 at about half way - then the fight started - I won - but only just,

Stoke fess up

1k was 69 stokes in 3:03.7 - so should have been 67 - 68 at a push
300m was 21 strokes in 53.6 - so should have been 20
300m was 20 strokes in 53.8
300m was 21 strokes in 53.5 - so should have been 20
300m was 21 strokes in 53.6 - so should have been 20
1k was 71 stokes in 3:07.5 - so should have been 69

so in total I was about 6 strokes over - would have been disqualified if that was a 30r20 with going that many strokes over - and that's on 600 stokes - this is only just over 200 - oops