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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.