5km warm up, quick chat to Jamie, Darrell, Jake, Mrs Heyden and Sonia from Liverpool - an old friend of mine from Uni days who is over in Oz for a few weeks. Jake asked what my plans and we agreed to share the pace.
Went off hard along with Jake. Watch beeped at 1km and it was 3:09 and my heart sank a bit - it felt closer to 3:00! So put more effort in as the plan was to get to 2km in 6:20. Got to 2km in 6:20. Then a 3:21 across the fiddly grass bit and Jake and I are still together going up the hill on Harbord Rd. But he starts to pull ahead towards the top and eases ahead from there. I finished with a 3:13 and a 3:08 (+10s for the extra 60m as the COURSE IS LONG). Hardly shabby but Jake managed to put 22s into me over the final 1.8km - he must have run sub 3's to finish.
Turned around to see a big smile on Jamie's face as he finally went under 17mins in running 16:52. Well done mate. Also had a chat with Andrew McFarlane who I haven't seen in ages. Then jogged back around the course with Jake to find Sonia (who's local Parkrun is the same as Big Sam's in Bromley) who ran 30mins.
3km warm down for 13km all up. Good rust buster. Now need to freshen up for the big dance next Sunday so that the first km doesn't feel so tough.
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