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Running Report Summary     2010

Nick Cook writes:

I wasn’t expecting much results wise from this run as I’ve been plagued with achilles tendon and calf trouble since July last year, meaning I hadn’t trained very much and  hadn’t run at all for the previous two weeks, deciding that my calf would benefit more from a good rest.

 I awoke to heavy rain on Sunday and decided to abandon my plan to walk/jog to the start, and opted to drive down instead. I got to the start area and queued up for the loos – not too bad a queue, and then headed off to get changed. There was a change to the baggage storage this year.

In previous years you just left your baggage in the changing tent, but this year they had a supervised baggage tent and you had to leave your kit with them. Got changed and then found the queue for the baggage tent was massive!!!! When the 5 minutes to start announcement came over the tannoy I, and many others, decided to just leave our bags in the changing tent.
 

This didn’t leave me much time for a warm up and stretch so headed off to the 2 hour mark in the starting queue. I had my dustbin bag on, but was wondering if I should have put a long sleeved shirt on underneath my vest – it was pretty cold standing around there!! 

The hooter went off on time and it took me about 6 minutes to cross the start line. I discarded the dustbin bag and settled into a 9:15 pace. The rain stopped and although my hands were cold for a while, I was soon glad I hadn’t put anything on under my vest.

I managed to keep a steady pace for 7 miles when my lack of training started to tell, I slowed to about 10 minute/mile pace for a few miles and the last two miles were about 11 minute miles with lots of people overtaking me.