Round 3 of the Winter Season today with a 10 km road race at Sandown. After training fairly strongly during the week, I was fairly confident of a good time. Alas, that's not how things transpired
Did not get to bed until 12:30 that morning so not a great start. The morning dawned and it rained, and it rained, then it rained some more. In fact it did not let up the whole morning. John Braszell picked me up promptly at 12:30 pm and we were off to Sandown
On Springvale Road and we're listening to the weather reprt on the radio and they say it is 7 degrees! Yikes!!
A short warm up in the rain and we go to the start line. So many bodies there, that it is actually quite warm amongst all the body warmth, although not very sweet smelling. after pushing really hard at the start last year, this year i wanted a nice steady start with as even a split as possible. Maybe 3:18 through the first km was not the way to go.
Felt reasonably strong on the second lap, and kinda felt like I was really pushing up that front straight. Still, went through 5 km in 17:24 when I was hoping for something closer to 17:10. Really started to feel the pace from hereon in and did the last 5 km in 17:43, so only about 19 seconds difference. didn't have much left at the end for what I reckon is the longest finishing straight in AV running - all 800 odd metres of it
i was a bit disappointed with my 35:07, but its probably not that bad. After going through my blog entries I see I have only been back in full training for about five weeks following my two week break after Stawell. Which in itself I only had three full months training for after being injured for half the summer
Coburg Harriers had arguably their strongest ever winter season women's team competing on Saturday, so that was pretty exciting, although they finished third last. One of our 16 year old boys ran 39:30, a massive PB for him. And one of our other juniors did a massive PB in the 3 km race and we had a 16th in the U14 girls race. Some very postitive signs for the club
So I look ahead to an 11.2 km run at Collingwood next weekend and the 15 km AV Road Race the week after. And more immediately, an 80 minute run tomorrow morning
TOTAL DISTANCE = about 11.5 kilometres including warm up and down
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