When the Weather man says it's raining he's probably lying

Well the threatened snow and ice failed to show today for my race. There was a chilly wind but nothing that bad once I was warmed up and into the race.

I had been quite scared of my predicted time for todays race as the runners world race calculator had me down for 65-68mins based on my 1omile result and my 4mile training run during the week and I was ready to believe them when I went past 1km at 6mins 20secs and 2km at almost 14mins but then the first 1-3 miles are always the toughest in longer races, you can't afford to zoom off and keel over halfway yet you don't want to be too slow either and give yourself too much to catch up on.

In the end I finished a shade over the hour (official time not yet released) which was at best a good 40secs faster than last seasons best time over the same distance. All I need to do now is work hard on the speed sessions when they occur in my training plan and I should be looking at a 10km PB at the end of the season.

Post-race recovery was good today, when I first started fun runs all I could do post-race was lie on the sofa and hobble to the loo every now and again. This time it was vastly different, after a shower and some lunch I was ready for some afternoon fun with the other half.