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Twickenham 10k. Step one in operation 'Goodbye Six'. Course was a loop along the Thames starting at the White Swan pub in Twickenham. It crossed the river using Richmond bridge and some random footbridge up-stream.

Plan was for a conservative 6 minute opener before gradually picking up the pace, passing 5k in 18:30 and sprinting for home after about 4 miles.

Reality was that I went out at a comfortable 5:50 pace before crossing the river and hitting the sludge. Unfortunately the weather had reduced the non-tarmac towpath to pretty slippy mud. I think this damaged the next 3 miles to varying degrees before returning to the good surface and suddenly seeing my time change from 6:11 to 5:45...

I lost this impressive show-pony speed crossing back over the river on the 'random footbridge'. It was packed with people, bikes and anti-cycle obstacles (and steps). After that a solid run back through Twickenham trying to hold it together.

From the first bridge I was safely in 6th. I passed the guy ahead of me in the second mile and was starting to catch 4th after the other crossing. He then nearly went the wrong way just before 6 miles and I finished very closely behind him scooting just under 37 minutes. 5th.

Happy enough considering the terrain and my week but now feeling I can run a 5:50 pace 10k pretty soon!

Split Summary

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1) - 1m - 5:51(5:51/m) - 106cal

2) - 1m - 5:58(5:58/m) - 109cal

3) - 1m - 6:00(6:00/m) - 108cal

4) - 1m - 6:12(6:12/m) - 110cal

5) - 1m - 6:02(6:02/m) - 109cal

6) - 1m - 5:52(5:52/m) - 109cal

7) - 0.2m - 1:06(5:30/m) - 21cal