10M pm incl 8K Met League cross-country race (24th)
I didn't run the best today. Part of that was down to a supremely rubbish start... which was all my fault and down to me being chicken and trying to avoid breaking something on the bottlenecky downhill rutted slippy first 400m. Despite being well positioned before the gun, I was about 70th after 400m and spent the first lap going slow in file trying to get around people. At least that meant that I spent the whole race gaining places, but it must have lost me about 20-30 seconds. And to be honest, I didn't really feel I had that much in me late in the race either. Lack of hill training? Hard session on Thursday? Hopefully one or other of those is the explanation rather than anything relevant to next week's marathon.
I didn't run the best today. Part of that was down to a supremely rubbish start... which was all my fault and down to me being chicken and trying to avoid breaking something on the bottlenecky downhill rutted slippy first 400m. Despite being well positioned before the gun, I was about 70th after 400m and spent the first lap going slow in file trying to get around people. At least that meant that I spent the whole race gaining places, but it must have lost me about 20-30 seconds. And to be honest, I didn't really feel I had that much in me late in the race either. Lack of hill training? Hard session on Thursday? Hopefully one or other of those is the explanation rather than anything relevant to next week's marathon.
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