Was pretty underwhelmed coming into this race. Weather was crap with teeming rain but more relevantly, I was nervous after feeling so average on Thursday morning not helped by too many beers on Thursday night. Didn't want my legs to feel so dead again so decided on taking it easy early on then feeling my way into the race. Did a 4km warm up with Justin, Macca and Dicky in the pitch black.
Lined up a few rows back and set off behind Timmy and LJ feeling pretty comfortable. Shortened my stride going up Scribbly Gums and found myself in about 8th spot and picking people up as I went. However, as soon as pushed just a bit too hard the legs felt very average so I figured I was doing the right thing. 1km in 3:25, 2km in 6:54, 3km in 10:34, 4km in 13:57. Not sure of 5km (it's on the steep hill and I'm concentrating here) but I'd guess 17:40. From then I could see Robin Vonk, Lewis and Alex R up ahead so concentrated on trying to catch them and worked harder to do so. Caught Robin at 6km then Lewis at 8km. Got closish to Alex but he was cruising and upped the pace when he heard my slapping footsteps. So a good negative split but just need the body to recover and work to calm down.
Nice run by Barts to get close to Dave C but otherwise times were pretty average today. Timmy won $20 after staying ahead of LJ. One more months training and she'll have him. 'Lil Jimmy looked resplendent in an England football kit. Justin and Dicky need to stop running together the whole time. Macca came home strong picking up a number of places and CT was forced to time trial for 3rd place. Thank God that's all over.
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Well done mate in pretty shocking conditions. Looks like I chose the right race to skip.
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