Capital Marathon, Half Marathon & 10k

**mynameis** · 2nd March 2010, 15:06

Anyone using a Pedometer to measure distance, time, calories burned?

How accurate do you find them?

**kiwifruit** · 21st June 2010, 10:34

One week to go! Is anyone doing it this year?

**Jase W** · 21st June 2010, 18:04

Doing the 10k (didnt get around to doing marathon training this year *sigh*)

**davebullet** · 21st June 2010, 21:32

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

One week to go! Is anyone doing it this year?

Not me unfortunately. I've still been doing the casual running thing each week, but nothing serious. I'm trying to convince myself to do that full.

**motor_mayhem** · 22nd June 2010, 00:41

Hell yeah I am 1/2ing, will be somewhere between 1:18 and 1:25 depending on weather conditions, I finished in the top 20 last year and less than 1hr 21mins

**motor_mayhem** · 22nd June 2010, 01:04

Originally Posted by mynameis

Anyone using a Pedometer to measure distance, time, calories burned?

How accurate do you find them?

Depends on what quality you buy and how well you set them up. People on this forum (http://www.nzrun.com/forum/main/show/fid/37-NZRun-Forum) could tell you for sure.

If you were just focused on distance and elevation why not to go with a gps watch? no setup and no inaccuracies caused by varying stride length

**kiwifruit** · 22nd June 2010, 14:03

Originally Posted by motor_mayhem

Hell yeah I am 1/2ing, will be somewhere between 1:18 and 1:25 depending on weather conditions, I finished in the top 20 last year and less than 1hr 21mins

What a beast! Let us know how you go this year

**motor_mayhem** · 27th June 2010, 21:39

22nd and 1:19:45. It was fricken freezing.

**cc rider** · 28th June 2010, 01:37

Congratulations mayhem.

I hope you enjoyed yourself. I don't know much about the course you did. Is there any links to it.

**Jase W** · 28th June 2010, 09:27

53:56 in the 10k. I should have trained a bit harder, could have managed 45min or less.

Didn't notice the cold until after the race heh - I was thinking partway through "Hmm I wonder if I can get my undershirt off without stopping, damn I'm warm".

**kiwifruit** · 28th June 2010, 16:47

Well done guys! CC, http://www.harbourcapital.org.nz/

Wet and windy day in Wellington. First 30km went really well, just cruised at target pace (5:25 per km), nice and comfortable. Into the strong headwind on the way back thru Shelly bay took alot of effort. Didn't eat enough and hit the dreaded wall with 5km to go! Could barely keep moving, ended up walking a few minutes with 2km to go. Light headed, blue lipped, had trouble thinking straight. Dan handed me a snickers bar just as it began to take hold but it was too late. Never had that happen before. Just plain ran out of fuel, couldn't even lift my feet. Last km took about 10min! Good thing it was wet and slippery so i sort of skied / shuffled in to the finish. Was super happy to have a sit down. Came right pretty quick. Good lesson learnt (eat more!) and still happy with the result, 4:11. 20min slower than if all had gone to plan but there is no point being disappointed, it is what it is and it was awesome.
Had a great support crew. Dan was on course the whole way, on a small motorcycle, handing me drinks and bananas as requested. Good fun after too, few drinks, lots of lols.

**one fast tl1ooo** · 28th June 2010, 16:51

Originally Posted by kiwifruit

Well done guys! CC, http://www.harbourcapital.org.nz/

Wet and windy day in Wellington. First 30km went really well, just cruised at target pace (5:25 per km), nice and comfortable. Into the strong headwind on the way back thru Shelly bay took alot of effort. Didn't eat enough and hit the dreaded wall with 5km to go! Could barely keep moving, ended up walking a few minutes with 2km to go. Light headed, blue lipped, had trouble thinking straight. Dan handed me a snickers bar just as it began to take hold but it was too late. Never had that happen before. Just plain ran out of fuel, couldn't even lift my feet. Last km took about 10min! Good thing it was wet and slippery so i sort of skied / shuffled in to the finish. Was super happy to have a sit down. Came right pretty quick. Good lesson learnt (eat more!) and still happy with the result, 4:11. 20min slower than if all had gone to plan but there is no point being disappointed, it is what it is and it was awesome.
Had a great support crew. Dan was on course the whole way, on a small motorcycle, handing me drinks and bananas as requested. Good fun after too, few drinks, lots of lols.

Well done . sounds like hard work, glad you do it

not me