Dingley Dozen

Well my friends, a couple of Sunday's ago I went down to Braeside Park in Dingley to take part in the Dingley Dozen, a race organised by the Dingley Lions Club. St Kilda had made the Grand Final so I figured I'd wear my Saints jumper for the race. Yeh, so I dressed up for the occassion!

Anyway, this was a few weeks ago so my memory isn't that great. But I remember going out a little too hard, but my race centered around running a 10k PB, which I almost did. I ran a 8k PB and missed out by seconds on the 10k. I was looking to run a 12k PB anyway but knew I would if I ran close to 10k PB. Thinking I was going to run about 53:30 I was surprised when the finish line appeared in front of me. I was also a bit surprised when my time on the sign was quicker than on my watch and I was surprised to then look down on my garmin to see the course was 250m short. I was also surprised that when I grabbed my gear the time was 9:50 and the race started at 9am?

Very interesting race. I went on a one lap recovery run to cool down and pretty much stopped to talk to every volunteer before heading back to pack up and go home.

My watch, and the time I've written down was 52:19. The time they have for me is 51:xx. I'm too lazy to change my records and it gives me a better chance of breaking 52:19 next time!

Next race for me is the Melbourne Half Marathon with a prologue at AV Shield Round 1 the day before. Not sure what I'll run at Shield yet, but at the Half I'm looking for sub 1:35. I ran 1:37:2x at Burnley about 3 weeks ago so I feel I'm well placed. Let's see how I go!