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Good 10k effort, and a marker for the next one!
Ladywell 10,000 was a great event, definitely get it on the calendar for next year. Chip timing, two pacers in every race, expert commentary, and lots of cake, pizza and beer. (Er, actually the pizza and beer ran out just before I'd freshened up after my race. Dammit!)
I ran 52 laps of the track myself. I was due to be pacing "minimum 5k" of race 2 at 40 mins pace, but felt comfortable and had people following me round all the way, so I did the whole thing. (Negative split, 20:03 @ halfway, 39:52 finish!) My actual race a couple of hours later was a little less successful, intended staying with the 34 mins pacer but couldn't quite hold on. The fade wasn't actually as bad as it felt; about 17:10 halfway for a final time of 34:36. (3 seconds outside my last road 10k time, but pretty warm today.) A good work-out though, and still a few weeks before the target marathon. A half marathon in 6 weeks at the same pace I ran today would be nice.
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Great to see you too! My mate was in a world of pain. You did amazingly.
I really enjoyed it, great atmosphere. Ran within myself for 9k with my pal, which suited me as I was wary of my knees. They were in a lot of pain around 7k but adrenaline or something masked it and my mate give me free reign for the last kilometer - hr up to a new max of 198 at the line!
Chip time of 56:12, which I'm chuffed to bits with since sub 60 was my aim. Would like sub 50 by the end of the year with healthy knees.
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36.04 / 35.57 chip at Trafford today. Slightly deflated as 35.30 should be doable. Still overall a good run as I think my last serious effort at a road 10k was in 2009.
Nice to see @alialias at the finish after, well done today. I'll wear my glasses when trying to spot runners on course next time...