In 2008, on a blistering hot day, after being awake all night with a fussy baby, I ran a 10k in Southampton.
It did not go well 52 something... I think it may have been a personal worse. It has always been nagging at me, but it had never worked out to repeat. This year I had actually asked for the day off work as I did want to try again. However, up until last night at 11pm it had looked like I would not be able to do it thanks to the weather and a inconveniently located soccer tournament of Luke's.
The details are boring of how it happened, but I was on the start line at 10am. Crowd felt smallish- not sure what the number were as compared to other years. For most of the out and back with a loop I was on my own. Would have had somebody to work with or at least block the wind. Definitely cool and wet. Good thing I i am rather fond of racing in poor conditions.
I am hazy on my time. My garmins view is screwed up cause I fiddled with it and I am yet to fix it. Basically I was just keeping an eye on my pace- trying to keep it around 4:45k's. The start was downhill so it was 3:30 for a bit- a windy section was 5:15 soo i thought my time was around 45-46min. When trying to figure you why the results were so wrong I found my official time as 44:36. Sooo whatever.
The race course must be different than 2008. At that time it was a definite out and back. This year there was a 1k loop to the 10k course....which seemed to cause a bit of upset, as in some people didn't do it. Top two males apparently didn't do it. Opps.
Other issue was how overwhelmy wrong the awards ceremony was....which at the end of the day is a risk when participating in community races. Those timing companies usually guarantee resonantly accurate results. Volunteers with a clip board- not so much. If they had simply posted the results anywhere prior it would have been obviously wrong. For the 10k- both OA female and male winners were wrong.
Anyways, i am short a bronze metal for my AG- fourth OA. The prize was socks or a hat for placement, but really do I need anther metal or hat?? Could use some socks though.
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If it's any consolation, I'm impressed with how you did. I still don't know my official time, but Jeff said it was 52 high, which would make it my fastest 10km race since about 15 years ago. Once upon a time I did a half marathon in 1:48. That was my fastest. Now I'm old and grey and I seem to be getting slower. My legs felt strong through the whole 10km race and that was after giving it my all in the bike time trial, so I was happy. I definitely like the $50 gift certificate from winning the bike race. AND the racing tire!
I so wish I had your speed!!!!
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