Chilly and rain was the theme of today's at the Milton Keynes 10km road race. I changed the original plan from a half marathon to a10km road race since at the moment am trying to get back my speed, the speed I lost with 5 Ironmans :)! Training has been going well lately so I thought I would try and improve on the 10km time I did 4 weeks ago. Unfortunately I was 4sec off the mark but the result turned out to be quite a good one considering the course. Who said Milton Keynes is flat????
10.20am start! I started at a good hard tempo. I wanted that sub 36min 10k time badly. I hit the first mile in around 5mins. I thought, oh thats fast, but I felt rather comfortable. I managed to keep a strong pace up until 5k which I covered in 17.31! Good I thought, 35mins here I come, until the hills started. I thought Milton Keynes was flat, and the race advertising was all about this fast flat course, where did these hills come from?? ... lol!
First hill, second hill, third hill..... come on guys this was not on the brouchure! Managed to finish the 10km in 36.49 and in 10th place. Fair enough I thought at the end of the race, might have been slightly slower than 4 weeks ago but first half was strong and if it had not been for the hills I would have got good pretty fast time, and 10th place with the runners is not bad going! So am pleased with that!! :)
Milton Keynes is in the bag and now we aim for the next one.... The Elite Duathlon Championships in Loughborough. The race is going to be held in an old air field so that should be flat no?? I never seen airports with hills...heheheheh!! It will surely be crazy fast with the likes of the Brownlees and Tim Don who might be on the start line!! Am expecting a sore bum after the race, and thats not from the effort I will be putting in it! :)
A big well done goes to DGtri Athletes Simona Carena who did a PB in the Half Marathon in 1hr 58mins and to Joe Brookes who also had a good performance even though suffering with flu all week. Well done!!
Dermot
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