This was the end of what was probably my most ever intense 4 days of training back to back totaling 46 and a bit miles.

Woke up with a bit of a head cold, toyed with the idea of not doing the race but it was such a nice day and Rose was running so I thought I should give is a go.

I did about 1.37 miles of warm up (my legs felt quite stiff) and to start with this was dead slow.

Headed over to the start not really thinking about how far back I was, this was probably the worst starting position I have ever had.  I passed about 200 people in the first mile.  I did not really push myself to hard on the climbs but I really went for it on the down hill bits.  I finished in 67th place with a time of 58:49 AvHR 157 (which is just into my threshold pace) – 6:31 min miles.

Really good turnout from DAC with some new faces.

thanks to clare spencer / stevelow dens for this photo on facebook

Rose did well to finish in a time of 78:50.

My splits were:

1) – 1m – 6:27(6:27/m) – 145bpm avge – 162bpm max – 81cal
2) – 1m – 6:17(6:17/m) – 159bpm avge – 163bpm max – 99cal
3) – 1m – 6:27(6:27/m) – 160bpm avge – 163bpm max – 102cal
4) – 1m – 6:40(6:40/m) – 158bpm avge – 161bpm max – 105cal
5) – 1m – 6:24(6:24/m) – 159bpm avge – 167bpm max – 98cal
6) – 1m – 6:50(6:50/m) – 159bpm avge – 166bpm max – 106cal
7) – 1m – 6:45(6:45/m) – 157bpm avge – 170bpm max – 101cal
8) – 1m – 6:41(6:41/m) – 158bpm avge – 162bpm max – 102cal
9) – 1m – 6:12(6:12/m) – 158bpm avge – 165bpm max – 94cal