10km | Race | 44:04 PB Week 10 of 11 Gee that was unexpected ! After a really bad nights sleep I was feeling tired and very crappy. I drove out to Lane Cove thinking that I will aim to better my February race time of 47:31 only. That at least would give me some confidence leading into the C2S next week. I started at the gun with Spud's 45 minute train, but quickly lost him into the distance. I think I caught him about the 1km mark and ran comfortably behind him for the km or two. I was feeling pretty good and thought that I may be able to actually give a sub 45 a shot if I can get to the turn around at the 5.5km mark in a decent time. Then a downhill section gave me the opportunity to move ahead so I put on a bit of a surge and was able to hold that rhythm and move ahead of the 45 group by about 30 seconds I think by the time I hit the halfway mark. From there I knew that I only had one or two mini hills home and concentrated on running any rises smoothly and leaning forward on the downhills. I found the return leg pretty easy and reckon that I had a fair bit left in the tank. "Maybe you need to start running some 1km intervals to teach yourself to run harder and make it hurt !" - is what a wise old Strider said to me on my warm down jog. Hmmm point noted. My Splits were: 24:04 at 5.5km drink station 19:59 at 10km Time by my watch was 44:04 which gave me a 3:26 course PB and an even better 1:12 10km PB ! Happy days ! Mood: --->

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