A coolish but still morning led me to change my plans for this years race. My target was sub 1.35 (faster than last year) but stretching to sub 1.33. The aim was to run steady even splits, but I felt so good early on I went for it! In the end I ran 1.33.03 the hard way. Going through 5 miles in 33.40 (50 seconds faster than I ran the Alsager 5 in February!), 10k in 41.25 and 10 miles in 69.39, I really had nothing left for those last few miles and my lack of distance work found me out. All in all though I was really pleased. On a fairly flat and fast course my splits show how not to run an even race!
6.37/6.42/6.47/6.45/6.38/7.09/6.55/7.20/7.20/7.29/7.17/7.26/7.45!/0.55.
The photo is at around 7 miles. I wished that I had felt like waving to the crowd as well! See the video for the start of the race http://www.youtube.com/user/RichardB1983 I'm already one 1 minute 8 seconds behind the leader and this is only the first corner of the race!
The highlight of the day was Sarah my daughter shouting me on with about a quarter of a mile to go. I had no idea she was coming to support me. Needless to say I turned on the fast finish and took about 25 places!
Weekly mileage 32. Annual mileage 337 (week 12). Races 6.
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