So the Movember 10K on behalf of Prostate Cancer was Saturday!
Had been a bit wary of the race as a result of my 2 weeks of solid ‘not caring’ which only gave me a week to prepare!
I got a run in on Tuesday that week just to give the legs a reminder as to what running actually felt like, but due to over doing it in the gym on Weds, I couldn’t do another on Thursday as planned! Didn’t think running the day before the race was a particularly good idea either, so I just took it easy on Friday other than my TKD class! Not the greatest prep! :/
Despite the said lack of preparation I still wanted to get out there and give a good account of myself, so I kept my sub 60min 10K fitness goal in sight and set out with the intention of beating it!
The race itself was a tough one! As for as 10K’s go, I fully doubt ill be coming across another that has more hills! Honestly, they did their best to level out the course but the majority of the last 3K was uphill! Granted some of that only fractionally but 2 main stretches were severe! See the picture of the finishing hill included!
Got my official time from the race chip timings on their website and I clocked in at 01:04:04.
This was only 3 minutes shy of my PB but without the hills im pretty confident I would have beat that time so I am chuffed with the result.
It’s getting to the point in the year now where all the events start winding down so i’m not sure if i’ll be getting another race in before years end, but I need to use this time to get my head down and work on my fitness some more before the new year as 2011 will be the year quite a few challenges get conquered!
All in all it was an amazing experience and I was very pleased to have notched up my second finish! Now on to the next one! :)
