I've had a cold all week and is still very bothersome but I wasn't missing this race for anything.
Well I think the best of the best came out for this race 30 of 114 came in below 30 minutes for 8k of tough terrain.
I did about 3k warm up and a few strides, gathered at the start in my singlet and fancy new spikes and we are off. Feeling good 3:34 or so first km, then the hill steep down and back up. The hill isn't huge, it is steep, the thing is you are trying to run 8k pace as much as possible so it really smacks you in the gut trying to get up it as fast as possible.
Try to recover quick and about 2 more km to finish the first loop, km 3 was kind of flat (cgraham caught me here) and the 4th was a long up hill. At this point I'm running at about 90% effort level and now to do it all over again. The last 2k were very hard. Finished as hard as I could, I was bagged. No one caught me the final loop, and I caught a couple guys so as slow as I though I was going I must have been doing OK.
I loved it!! It was a gut check for about 7 of the 8km of the race, trying to hold off other racers, hold your pace, possibly track down a few in front of you, and not fall flat on your face.
4k cool down with some of James' friends and stayed to watch the awards. The winner was 52 years old in 27:17!!
Jerry Kooymans an amazing runner.
13-19 in 35-39
44-91 Males
44-114 Overall
Fizz the 5k race in 2 weeks doesn't climb the hill and I hear is "mostly" flat, so that's a bit less to worry about
Found a few pictures
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Yeah, those old guys really are fast! The winner of the Angus Glen 10K yesterday was in the 50-54 AG.
