I missed this race last year through illness and so was pleased to make the start line with nothing more than a sniffle.
This week's prep hasn't been textbook, 2 swim and 3 turbo sessions. Last night I was at a party and was on my feet for 4 hours. Tum tee tum my prediction was 3 miles and then the week would find me out.
I caught a lift over with Simon and met up with the Dave and the Aro mob.
At the start I made my way to the back and hoped for something near 75.
The start was quick and I found myself amongst some of the Aro's bouncing along at 7min pace. I felt alright and just kept it going. At mile 4 the legs started feeling very heavy. 5-9 I eased up until I realised I was just cruising a bit too much. So I put a bit more effort in to get the legs moving for the final mile.
It was still a pretty woeful performance, finally finishing in 78 mins with a 10% drop in performance from 2 years ago. Whoops.
The missing part of my training at the moment is my reps so I need to get those back in the weekly schedule. Otherwise I'll be back to being a one pace wonder.
Simon was over the line in just over 60mins, 90 secs down on 2 years ago. Today just wasn't to be.
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