Very, very happy with that!
Didn’t really set myself a target time, but hoped to get comfortably under 90 mins. Thought my best 10 Mile was 83:20 (although it was actually 82:58 at this race in 2018.
Started fairly steadily, and was feeling ok, but nothing special. Slowly reeled in Michelle over first four miles and kept the pace up, but still not too fast. Then it came to the hill and powered up that, overtaking plenty of others who all seemed to be walking it. Used the downhill to up the pace a bit and then realised that I could get under 1:25. With 2 miles to go, thought I could PB if I could do 7:30 per mile, so just tried to push as much as possible, but came up slightly short of what I thought was my PB time. Now realised I was about 30 seconds off, so not too worried about that.
I actually managed my fastest 10k this year, in the final 10k of the race, including the hill.
Did 10 min warm up, and 6 min run plus about 15 mins walk cool down.
Fantastic work Ben. Sounds like you really pushed hard in this race. Also nice to hear you were strong up the hill as we’ve obviously done quite a bit of work on that. To be close to some of your overall PBs now, after slowly working back from the injury is terrific and further evidence how well you are running right now. I won’t dock any points for the missing 4 mins as that would just be harsh.
Coach Simon π