Saturday June 5, 2010 (Race-10km)
Dire predictions for another day of flooding and torrential rain - did not eventuate for the Striders 10km race at North Head this morning. It was not even cold - perfect running conditions, just a bit of blustery breeze coming in off the Harbour. I had a very lazy week of little running - 11km on the hills of St Ives. The pain in my left hamstring has returned and combined with a wet, wet week was enough to convince me to take it easy. So why race today? Good question - I was not sure why I was running except that I will be away for a few months and won't run this course till next year. And too late I also remembered that I was going to try to run an even paced race? I went out to hard and my legs were empty after 5 km and all I could do was just hang on. Had thoughts of pulling out at 5km but convinced myself to keep going. With 2km to go I recovered enough to finish relatively strongly - 10 seconds off my 10km PB. Almost the same as last months race - I ran the first 5km an average 15sec/km quicker than my average pace of the race.
Crossed the finish line, the sun came out and the pain of pushing beyond my training limit -forgotten in an instant. But the wonderful feeling of accomplishment, of knowing I gave it all and did not give in to the impulse to quit - stayed with me for the rest of the day. Uhhh.... all was well in the world.
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