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Yeah I've been thinking about this! It gets up to 4.97km so I need to find 30m somewhere. Really want to push for 19.xx now, so next week I'll try starting from far nearer the front. Will potentially be quite a psychological shift - I get a lot of satisfaction from passing people and pushing on, but I think, especially with the mass start, it's costing me.
Will have to get used to people blazing past me and clinging on for dear life.
yoshy-
next week I'll try starting from far nearer the front
I'd actually written that advice in my post earlier (based on your Strava pic of the start crowd) but thought it a bit 'preachy' so deleted it!
Defo worth moving up at start, you'll get dragged along a bit by the faster crowd. You may find too much at first and you blow up but that's part of learning to run on the limit.
Fwiw (related to above) your HR graph starts quite low and climbs slow in the first mile, so you defo should try go out a bit harder IMO and see what happens.
Maybe see if there's a 20min pacer you can tag onto?
rhb
Go wide on all the corners & the track laps!