BMC Academy PB Classic (Millfield)

Mon May 5 2008
Listed by Blister
Entrants (1) Club PB SB Pred Time WAVA
Blister Well the track meeting itself was great and the weather was perfect - it was really impressive watching the young talent running fast times including 4:00:xx for 1500m in the men's A race and 8:30 for 3000m. I'm very impressed with the organisation done by BMC. Unfortunately my run was a load of sh*t, can't really say much on it TBH, I could come up with loads of excuses but at the end of the day I just can't run fast over long distances. I was put in the mixed race (there were 3 races: 9:45, 8:55 and 8:30 pace, the 9:45 was the mixed one which I was in) which was mainly girls who were mostly younger (and faster!) than me. We had 3 pacers in our race (every race had pacers which was great) - 78, 80 and 84 secs per lap pacers, plan was to stick with the 80 sec pacer which would get me in at 10:00 exactly but after one lap wasn't feeling good and couldn't hold onto the group and they slowly drifted away (felt really strange being beaten by so many girls at once!). I went through the mile in about 5:30 which was about 5 secs slower than last week; I managed to increase the pace slightly for the rest of the race and finished with a quick 400m after catching two girls who I beat in the end. My stomach was really hurting for most of the second half (and really hurt during the last 800m), it felt a bit like someone had poured acid all over it! Maybe it was because I hadn't eaten anything since about 1:30pm and my race didn't start until 8:50pm? Anyway I was really disappointed with the time, I felt like I was running faster (mind you I was the only one who wasn't wearing spikes, that would have made some difference) and thought I'd be on for at least 10:15. Don't know my finish position but I was almost last out of about 15 or so. View a video of the race TeamBath AC, Somer AC, Walton AC 9:51 10:28 10:00 10:28 71.67

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