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Cricklade 10k

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Club		 PB SB Pred Time WAVA
Adders It just wont stop. It feels like it will never stop. The racing curse continues as I fail to even run a PB, never mind sub 37. It has been 2 years since I have a run a road race where I have attained my target. The wait goes on.. and on... and on. It was a warm day, but Im not going to make excuses for the weather. What I found offputting was that there were no kilometre markers for the first half so that didnt help my pacing. There were mile markers though. I learnt from what happened at St Davids Day 10k and attempted to start off at a steady yet decent pace that felt around 6:00/mile (definitely did not feel too fast). First mile split: 5:38. What??? No sense whatsoever. Second mile I steadied myself slightly, but no way in a million years did it feel as slow as the 6:19 displayed on my watch. The same can be said for the 6:20 third mile. This left me incredibly bewildered, a feeling Ive experienced far too often in the past. At half way, I was just under 19 minutes, which I figured was on pace for my St Davids Day time. I knew I'd have to run a highly impressive negative split to obtain my 37 minute target. But it wasnt to be. The latter kilometres seemed slow without knowing my exact splits. A fast finishing kilometre of 3:26 was not nearly enough to break 38 minutes. After the finish, I was left to feel confused and frustrated, for the umteempth time. I clearly have big trouble in pacing my races. Either I think Im going slowly and end up running faster splits than expected, or I think Im going fast but end up running slower splits than expected. Being the 3rd male finisher is barely a consolation for another disappointing performance. Overall Race Rating - 4/10
Rugby & Northampton AC 		38:01 38:01 37:00 38:21 68.84
B Rubble Went OK for first couple of miles but then slowed down massively. Was warm (22 degrees or so but not scorching). Went home then did 10 miles to beast myself for being so slow then realised later that I was actually ill and spent the rest of the day in bed. Could have been heat or the gastric bug that Emma had.
Dursley Running Club 		38:50 41:40 41:40 68.97
chrishunt
Corsham RC 		42:16 42:16 45:00 42:16 69.12
Loca
West 4 Harriers 		37:10 37:58 37:58 80.44

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