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Chippenham for me today. Final scores on the doors 80.12, a near 3 minute PB so pretty pleased. Have to say didn't enjoy it as it felt like quite hardwork. Met BR and Hilly at the start and said hi. Was planning on 6's till 10m and then either jog it in as all the info for Abo would be there. Went through 5m in 29.55 bit knew I was working a bit too hard and eased off a little going through 10 in 60.55 (Happy with this as I now I would have dipped under the hour if it was a 10m race and I pushed it). Was pretty stuffed at this point as I had run the last 9m on my own and wrestling with some mental demons as I had no-one to work with. 6.27 for mile 12 put paid to any chances but managed to pick the pace up for the last bit thus getting me closer to 80 than I otherwise would have been. Needless to say I was first runner in over 80 mins. Splits as follows

5.51 (181)
5.59 (174)
5.51 (174)
6.03 (175)
5.58 (179)
6.05 (180)
6.13 (178)
6.09 (178)
6.13 (177)
6.03 (181)
6.14 (182)
6.27 (183)
5.54 (185)
1.06 (189) 0.22m

Just got back to Cheltenham and the first running mate I saw said "You must be gutted about those 13 secs"- No, not at all.