Having spent the last two weeks doing next to nothing whilst waiting to recover from the marathon it was the next race in the Blacksheep Race Series today in the form of Kirkby Malzeard 10k. As fa
r as I'm concerned this is the toughest 10k race on my race calendar and with the temperature rising and with the blazing sun it was bound to be a hard day at the mill. I don't know why but I felt heavy legged on my pre-race warm up and with the sound of 3 bottles of powerade sloshing about in my stomach it didn't fill me with confidence. From the starters gun my two team mates shot off down the road full steam ahead with me following right behind them, the little devil on my shoulder that always makes me set off too fast had now managed to control the minds of my fellow team mates as well. Rea
ching the first mile marker I was in the lead and every mile after that seemed longer than the last one I had just done, I kept the lead to the finish with 2nd placed runner Richard Watson from Ripon Runners about 55 seconds behind. My time was around 1 minute 40 seconds slower than what I have done before around this course so I have plenty of work to do before my next race in the Blacksheep Series at Rainton in 3 weeks time.
At the presentation team mate Cameron Choules thought he had won the first V40 category as he kindly pointed out that there didn't look like their was anyone was older than us two by the time he had finished. Unfortunately he was pipped at the line by another V40
but with Steph Tomaszewski also running well again we took the team prize.
r as I'm concerned this is the toughest 10k race on my race calendar and with the temperature rising and with the blazing sun it was bound to be a hard day at the mill. I don't know why but I felt heavy legged on my pre-race warm up and with the sound of 3 bottles of powerade sloshing about in my stomach it didn't fill me with confidence. From the starters gun my two team mates shot off down the road full steam ahead with me following right behind them, the little devil on my shoulder that always makes me set off too fast had now managed to control the minds of my fellow team mates as well. Rea
ching the first mile marker I was in the lead and every mile after that seemed longer than the last one I had just done, I kept the lead to the finish with 2nd placed runner Richard Watson from Ripon Runners about 55 seconds behind. My time was around 1 minute 40 seconds slower than what I have done before around this course so I have plenty of work to do before my next race in the Blacksheep Series at Rainton in 3 weeks time.At the presentation team mate Cameron Choules thought he had won the first V40 category as he kindly pointed out that there didn't look like their was anyone was older than us two by the time he had finished. Unfortunately he was pipped at the line by another V40
but with Steph Tomaszewski also running well again we took the team prize.
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