A kind of 10K race

13M
0.5M warm up
10K (6.2M; undulating) at 5.27min/M - 00:33:50; 1st position
10K warm down / recovery run at 7.20min/M

I ran a 10K fun run today totally against the spirit of the thing (which was labelled clearly as not a race). I wasn't quite sure what was best so pulled on a British Heart Foundation t-shirt to show some concession and then ran it as hard as I could. It was good, and I needed a good tempo run this week, so it served me well.

It was undulating. Which means hilly. I ran it without my Garmin to make things more interesting and pushed pretty hard for the first 5K. I was really burning by then but I think I maintained fairly even splits taking the hills into account. All in all a good session. And I improved my previous 10K best by 20 seconds despite the hills, though since the course was apparently inaccurately measured last year, I'm not going to consider it a proper PB. For what it's worth, I won.

The other members of Team Scott also performed strongly against a competitive middle field.