Pardo Unlocked / The Chase
The Chase
Sub-20, live. Am I getting closer, or is this an elaborate waste of time? Updated every Split.
3:45 still to find.
Last result: 23:44, −0:52 since the June baseline · Next test: Nantwich, 20 September · Read Split 08: Clothing optional
No new test this week. Just Block 2 doing what Block 2 is meant to do: a strong training week, a swim that doubled its own distance, and a long run that stayed disciplined under its heart-rate ceiling the whole way round. The number hasn't moved since Delamere. Nantwich is the next one that counts.
Some perspective, because a number means nothing in a vacuum. For a man of 43, benchmark data puts 24:36 at bang-on intermediate. Sub-20 lands the far side of advanced, a whisker short of what they politely call elite. A normal bloke chasing a nearly-elite number, on purpose. That is the whole point.
| 5k standard | Time at 43 |
|---|---|
| Beginner | ~33:55 |
| Novice | ~28:21 |
| Intermediate | ~24:16 24:36, started here |
| Right now | 23:44 Delamere parkrun |
| Advanced | ~21:15 |
| Elite | ~19:02 19:59 lands just shy |
5k standards for age 43, interpolated from the 40 and 45 age bands. Source: Running Level.
Six clean sessions of seven this week. Wednesday's swim covered the cross-training slot but not the run and strength scheduled alongside it, and that is noted plainly rather than credited by association. Tempo and long-run heart rate both held inside target throughout. Ted
A good week, genuinely, right up until Monday's review found the one seam: Wednesday's swim covered the slot but not the session either side of it. Fair, technically. Not thrilled about it, emotionally. Full story, complete with a police encounter on the Weaver and a coach who only uses my nickname when I've earned it, is in Split 07.
The North West Triathlon, Nantwich, 20 September. Five hundred metres in the brine pool, 21km on the bike, then a flat 5K on tired legs with Dave and Gilbo somewhere out on the course.
Get the next number when it moves
No noise, just an email when the Chase changes.
All times on this page are Strava 5K best efforts, measured the same way from the first time trial to the last. Where a run also has an official parkrun result, that gets said too. It usually reads a few seconds slower, because Strava finds the fastest 5,000m inside a course that GPS measures long. Saturday at Delamere: 23:44 on Strava, 24:05 official. Same clock throughout, so the comparisons actually mean something, and anyone who follows me can check the lot.