Sydney Striders 10km | 47:31 | course PB I seem to have this love-hate situation going with that place. I really don't enjoy trudging up those hills, but for some reason if there was a race on there every week - I'd be there with bells on ! Saw lots of CoolRunners out there today including the delightful Kit that I met for the first time. I set off lagging behind Jim the 50:00 pacer and quickly found the 55:00 pacer Horrie right up my tail. It seems the overcast sky, the trees and a low battery caused my GPS no end of troubles. I have a total event distance of only 9.073km with tragically odd splits. So each time that my watch beeped for a km spilt I was horrified at my crap pace. So without the 50:00 pacer in my sights and an unreliable watch - I was a tad in the dark with the whole thing. I got to the top of scribbly in about 24 minutes and knew that the worst was behind me. Coming down the hill I saw Kevin Tiller, Kit, Plu, BernieG ,Horrie and Belinda and a BennyR making his Striders debut. In the distance getting further ahead were Gnome and Mr G who both seemed to be ahead of the 45:00 pacer. In the "downhill" part of the course with about 3kms to go I got into a panic that I wouldn't make it in sub 50:00, so I upped the pace. Typical of the Lane Cove course, everytime you turn a corner - there is another bloody hill. Yes even in the "downhill" part of the course ther are hills. Aaargh ! Lucky for me my panic was unfounded and the finish line came up much quicker than I thought, with a 47:31 time (my watch) and with NO shin problems. Yay ! Lets hope that I can get more than just one mid week run in this week. Mood: --->

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