Today saw round 3 of the cross country season head to Sandown Racecourse for a bit of a road race. Had a little trouble getting there...... you can't turn right from Heatherton Road onto the Princes Highway!
My watches battery went dead this morning so ran the race on feel. I kinda wanted to run 45mins.... thats about 15mins each lap. Started slow, and ran the first lap (plus the extra bit) in about 17 something. Not great. Picked it up over the second lap, and again passed a few people on the uphill bit. One or two passed me on the downhill and apart from the leaders coming in, no one else passed me from then on. The second lap had me at just on 31mins and I knew I had to run 12:55 to run a PB. I thought I was a chance and tried to pick off as many as I could on the last lap. I passed probably 10 or so on the uphill bit (I seem to be okay at uphill) and tried to lift the pace at 2.5 to go, 1.2 to go, and with about 900 to go someone mentioned we were at 40:10 so I thought I'd get close. The final straight is a bloody long straight. When you think you can see the finish line, the further away it seemed. It was a bit tough with the wind coming in, I didn't want to tuck in behind anyone because, well, I was passing them. About 200 or so metres from the line I thought the clock read 43:35 and thought I could get this. Then it ticked over 43:50...... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and then 44:11 or 08. Almost!
Not sure whats next, might run the Bluestone Classic before Lake Wendoree. Not sure yet, see how I feel.
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