My club, Doncaster AC hosted this one and the course was redesigned by me to make it safer.  The course was great and many thanks to all that helped out as always, your a great team.  Many thanks to Janet for looking after the kids again, allowing me and Rose to race.

After the London Marathon a lot of people probably thought it was not sensible to race so soon.  I had Monday off running.  Tuesday I did a club run, about 5 miles at 7:30 pace, felt ok (was glad to bin the track session).

Got to the start on Wednesday, did a 2 minute warm up and felt quite tired, started a few rows back.

My mile splits were 5:45, 5:49, 5:56, 5:44 and 5:55 with a finish time of around 29:21, my second fastest 5 mile (NAD) race ever (6ish seconds off my PB).  The garmin gave 5:03 miles.  The race was hilly but easier than the first 2, and it was an uphill race, the finish being higher than the start.

As I am now a V40 runner (41) I am a counter for our clubs vet team and we are doing amazing, currently winning with a time of 364:49.  Second place is 380:46.  If we were a senior team we would be in 4th place.

I am second V40 after 3 races, I have to make up just over 30 seconds in the last race to take first.  My competitor for first place, Alan Ford ran an amazing race considering he also ran London Marathon.

I have got lots more racing coming up in the next few weeks where I hope to keep hitting PB’s.  Race often and good things happen!  This is how I monitor my progress, these stats don’t allow any BS: