Cancer Research 10K - Dorney Lake

Sun October 28 2007
Entrants (6) Club PB SB Pred Time WAVA
are we there yet? C'mon - surely I can beat 60 minutes eventually!!! UPDATE: YES! YES! YES!!! Unaffiliated 58:39 58:39 59:59 58:39 51.40
beffrey Tried to stick with 4 mins a km. After 2 km I was at 8.10, but I think the 3rd km mark was a bit off because I seemed to get there about 40 seconds too soon. Over took a fair few to start with and them from 3k through to 8 I was following some old guy in an all-in-one suit. He was a bit of a showman. We go round the lake twice hit the big crowds of spctators again at the halfway mark and he got them all cheering and stuff with his crazy antics. Funny how you unintentionally speed up for a while when you've got people spuring you on. Anyway apart from him, I was miles ahead of the next group of runners and only overtook about 2 people so I was never really in a race. Took some water for the sheer novelty of it, but being in a plastic cup I couldn't drink it whilst running so basically choked on it and threw it over me. At 7k I was about 15 secs under 4 min/km but I couldmn't keep it up. At 8, I overtook all -in-one man. He asked me how I was doing, and I said yeah I was feeling good and he told me to push. Felt pretty rough with 2 to go. With 1 to go my head started absolutely throbbing. Made atn attempt at catching the guy in front with a sprint but I didn't have enough left and finish just behind. Unaffiliated 38:02 40:22 42:00 40:40 64.92
catwoman Unaffiliated 50:03 51:54 54:00 51:54 60.72
K8 Ealing Eagles Running Club 52:05 52:41 58:00 52:41 56.72
MissingPhoenix Well it's a PB but hated the race. Why start it so late (11 o'clock), why not tell people what's going when the race is delayed, why not spend 50p on some duck tape and put in a blooming start/finish line, and why not measure the friggin' course. Anyway, time I've put in here is my garmin time + 1 minute cos that's about what it would have been if the course was near the proper distance. bah ;) Unaffiliated 41:45 43:40 45:00 43:40 60.55
teesh Crystal Palace Fun Runners 1:01:44 1:12:00 1:20:00 1:12:00 43.16

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