Two races in a day!

8M incl Run Jericho 10K cross-countryish race in 34.13 (1st place; 5.28min/M)

Two races in a day! Not bad eh? OK, so one of them was a 1K race that I ran with my nephew Samuel (above). He's not even 5 and managed to run the whole way including a bit of a sprint finish. And I don't think he was just trying to impress Thom Yorke from Radiohead who was there cheering on his kid (I guess).

The 10K race was around Port Meadow in Oxford, which I've run around literally 100s of times over the years. Probably my favourite route anywhere (though Blenheim Palace via the free back entry runs it close).

I've only raced around the Meadow once before - when I was 16 or so. I came 2nd that time. So victory today felt good, even if it was only a fun run and I shouldn't have been taking it seriously.

I went off fairly gently to suss out what was going on at the front and then sped up after the first few hundred metres. The route is fairly grassy and uneven, so my time wasn't too bad. And a good tempo workout.

And instead of some nonsense energy bar, the end of race reward was a free George and Davis ice cream - so everyone was a winner. Including Yasmin, who clocked a 3 minute PB.