The forecast was not inspiring but I wasn't going to let anything so trivial as a hurricane get in my way - Pah!
Finding the start was a trivial process accompanied by a small shower. After waiting for a wee while to get going, accompanied by a stronger shower, I finally hit the roads with 25,000 other runners.
There was no sign of injury for the whole run! Just not enough fitness really, and some more showers.
The atmosphere was really great! The crowd lining the route was noisy but not as noisy as a few thousand runners in a road tunnel. I heartily approval of juvenile behaviour in the course of having fun. ;-)
So, for various reasons (walkers getting in the way, fitness...lack of, rain, wind, 24,999 other runners on a tight-ish track etc.) today was never going to be a fast run. the winner was over 30 mins where a fast 10k for blokes might be considered to be below 30 mins. Now that's olympic standard bear in mind. I was aiming for 55 mins at best....sub hour at least.....just finishing at worst!
So, According to my Garmin I finished the first 5k in just over 27 mins....hmm, going out a little too fast I think! The second 5k took me up to 58:45....crossing the line took me up to 1 hour on the nose!
So, morally, I feel that was a sub 1 hour race but it's the time you cross the line with that counts though so technically this was 60mins. I'm happy with that though all things considered. See what you think: The run.
British 10k feedback:
- Runners need to be penned according to time
- Chipped time required
- Sort the start out!
- Sort the finish out!
- More goody bag booty required
- This is a race with huge potential...if it was better organised...
