I decided to have a rest day on Saturday, did not do much apart from walk the dog and shoot off to Asda at the last minute to get Rose some mothers day presents from Caroline and Sophie.

Up at 7am, normal breakfast and set off at 8:15.  Got my number and ran a 2 mile warm up with Paul Cooke (who went on to smash his PB by 14 minutes).

Set off near the front with Steve McGuire, Jenny Blizard and Dave Tune.  They were running at about the pace I wanted to achieve and were kind enough to act as “wind breaks”.  It was about 2 degrees and quite windy but overall the conditions were quite good.  At times I felt like letting my running companions go but other times I felt quite strong.  I loved the undulating profile, just my sort of race (no bad hills).

I finished with a PB of 1:23:48 ish which is about 50 seconds quicker than my previous best which was Sheffield 2 years ago.  My AvHR was 158, bottom half of my tempo zone.

I went through 10k in 38:57 and10 miles in 1:03:34 (12 seconds slower than my 10 mile PB).

Jenny was first lady to finish, Dave Sedgwick ran a PB and finished 8th and Steve McGuire looked strong through out, finding his form again. Dave Tune earns a bottle.

The website I upload my runs to makes the following prediction based on this run which will do nicely!:

Splits:

1) – 1m – 6:06(6:06/m) – 171bpm avge – 191bpm max – 32cal
2) – 1m – 6:10(6:10/m) – 163bpm avge – 172bpm max – 95cal
3) – 1m – 6:13(6:13/m) – 164bpm avge – 176bpm max – 101cal
4) – 1m – 6:22(6:22/m) – 161bpm avge – 173bpm max – 103cal
5) – 1m – 6:23(6:23/m) – 160bpm avge – 167bpm max – 104cal
6) – 1m – 6:30(6:30/m) – 158bpm avge – 178bpm max – 105cal
7) – 1m – 6:24(6:24/m) – 157bpm avge – 165bpm max – 102cal
8) – 1m – 6:32(6:32/m) – 157bpm avge – 182bpm max – 102cal
9) – 1m – 6:29(6:29/m) – 157bpm avge – 173bpm max – 108cal
10) – 1m – 6:34(6:34/m) – 152bpm avge – 170bpm max – 84cal
11) – 1m – 6:34(6:34/m) – 160bpm avge – 171bpm max – 72cal
12) – 1m – 6:22(6:22/m) – 147bpm avge – 168bpm max – 79cal
13) – 1m – 6:25(6:25/m) – 156bpm avge – 172bpm max – 12cal
14) – 0.14m – 44(5:12/m) – 176bpm avge – 188bpm max – 1cal