A Personal Best!

I'm pleased with myself tonight because I have run 10k for the first time ever.  The furthest I've run before was just over 7k, in preparation for the Oxford Tri club championships, and although in theory I knew I could run 10k, I'd never actually gotten round to doing it - running is still not my strong point.

I'm running the Eynsham Road Runners 10k race on 25th November.  Anyone who knows the Road Runners know that they're a bit crayzeee, but luckily they've decided that it makes sense for members to be barred from the actual race (partly so they don't take up all the places, and partly so they have a ready-made team of marshals on the day).

The bad news is they've attracted lots of other crayzeees over the 19 years the race has run so far, so it's quite a competitive event.  I'm happy to be last, but I don't want to be last by too great a margin, so I've been thinking it's important to get a couple of 10ks under my belt before the day.

So this evening was an important psychological step, proving that I really can run 10k, and in a semi-respectable time of 57 minutes.  I'm hoping to get down below 55 minutes before the day (which should be realistic based on my 26 minute 5k time).

OK, so it was indoors on a treadmill, but I did run it at 1% incline so honestly, it felt like hard work!