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Did the Boggart Chase 10k today in sunny North Manchester - was a hilly course so I wasn't expecting to PB, and was astonished when I had run the first 4k, including a steep hill, at sub 50 pace.
My Garmin seemed to screw up in the last 2k, it went from 8.4k back to 8.27 for some reason (lot of tree cover overhead?) and then was only at 8.5 when I reached the 9k marker, so my splits for the latter half are messed up, but generally I ran the second half slower as the hills were pretty sapping - was good to put my hill work to use though, as people would overtake me on the flat parts, but I always seemed to have more than them on the hills and on the last one left them for dead. My legs were dead but I just kept going to the finish, couldn't manage to sprint past one more, but at least I wasn't overtaken in the last 5k by anybody and picked off a good few and won all the little mini races I had in my head with people along the way
My last PB was 2 weeks ago on a "PB" course in perfect cool conditions, so am really pleased to have got another PB on a hilly course and in the hot sun as well.
I feel a sub 50 is only another race away - unfortunately I might have to wait for some time before the next 10k near me
My Garmin seemed to screw up in the last 2k, it went from 8.4k back to 8.27 for some reason (lot of tree cover overhead?) and then was only at 8.5 when I reached the 9k marker, so my splits for the latter half are messed up, but generally I ran the second half slower as the hills were pretty sapping - was good to put my hill work to use though, as people would overtake me on the flat parts, but I always seemed to have more than them on the hills and on the last one left them for dead. My legs were dead but I just kept going to the finish, couldn't manage to sprint past one more, but at least I wasn't overtaken in the last 5k by anybody and picked off a good few and won all the little mini races I had in my head with people along the way
My last PB was 2 weeks ago on a "PB" course in perfect cool conditions, so am really pleased to have got another PB on a hilly course and in the hot sun as well.
I feel a sub 50 is only another race away - unfortunately I might have to wait for some time before the next 10k near me