Both these races are fantastic events with loads of club runners taking part to test their fitness early in the year, very friendly events.
Ferriby 10 mile – 28 January 2018
Last year I ran my best time for 10 miles at Ferriby. I was about a minute slower this year but the conditions were a lot tougher, the first half of the race was in to a strong head wind, and I was not feeling 100% this time.
I stopped for about 30 seconds at the half way drinks station as I was in need of 2 cups of water. Before the start I was begging water from other runners despite taking what I thought was enough, so thanks James Osborne and stranger. I think I had a bit of a cold.
My splits were 5:40 6:34 6:18 6:31 6:27 5:41 5:45 5:31 5:38 6:05. I knew I would have a fast second half, with most of it down hill and the wind more behind and I finished with a time of 60:18. With better conditions I think I could have run around 58:30.
Dewsbury 10k – 4 February 2018
I have done this one a few times and never felt like I had run the time I thought I could. I was very confident going in to this race I could run a good time and hopefully a PB. I travelled with Peter and Joe and we all had similar aims in mind, and we all finished within 30 seconds of each other, we will work well together in training and racing.
My splits were 5:38 5:45 5:54 5:37 5:36 5:39 1:21. its a climb for the first half so a faster second half. I missed my PB by 1 second, oops. Anyone can find 1 second.
No time to stop for a drink at the drinks station today so I must be feeling better.
Peter and Joe both smashed their PB’s as did Nicola, Lee and Simon.
Sub 35 minute 10k hopefully this year.
The below table breaks down my best splits in this race (it was slightly long on the garmin), so I ran a PB for 5k and 5 miles.
And this table gives me my race predictions based on todays performances and I think they are spot on.
And finally some running data, 172 cadence, 1.64m stride and Avg HR 162.
Now time to get some long runs and big mileage weeks in.
Top tune.