Club Handicap run today with a 10 km race at Princes Park. Kylie had to take the children to a kids party so I took the tram down St Georges Road and jogged the ten minutes to the start line
The nearest competitor to me was Liam Magee who had a minute head start with me as the backmarker. Tried to start off steady but a check of the watch saw that I was doing 3.5 min km's through the first kilometre. Still, it was a pretty fast course
It started on the playground/bbq side and went north and around the top, before you go under Royal Parade and head toward the zoo as a little out and back loop before going back onto the course proper
At the four kilometre mark, I had cut Liam's one minute lead down to thirty seconds. And at the halfway mark I had bang on 18:00 on the watch. From here, I got into a nice steady ryhthm and didn't worry too much how far Liam was in front as me, as I knew I would easily be able to overtake him at the time of my choosing, especially as that gap was closing pretty rapdly through the next two kilometres
Finally, on the cemetery side and into a strong headwind, I passed Liam about 500 metres from the finish with a good sustained kick to the finish. In the end, eighth place overall
Out for dinner tonight with some people I used to work with. We went to Thy Thy's on Victoria St and I managed to work myway through a bottle of red wine. But it was the pint at the pub near the train station that had me feeling very light headed
A party to go to tomorow, so no chance of going for a run. Oh yeah, and it's my birthday as well
TOTAL DISTANCE : about twelve kilometres including warm up
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