Stryka’s BodyBlog

I looked up the results for this run today. It actually had a time: 26mins 25 seconds. Which I am pretty happy with seeing I don’t think I pushed myself as hard as I could. 

This morning I ran in the "race to the taste" It is a nice and short 6km fun run that opens up the taste of tasmania food festival. I rocked up with absolutely no preparation whatsoever for this run and a funny thing happened, I had no competitive instints whatsoever today. I couldn’t have cared much less about the start. Content just to slowly work my way through traffic.

Weather was a relatively comfortable 24 degrees c (75f) with quite strong winds.

The course start with a slight uphill for about the first kilometre and I settled in to a good pace, round a loop and then downhill towards the waterfront. Once we got around the loop there was quite a strong tailwind. I opened up my stride a little to let myself pick up some pace down the hill. Up and around to the roadway and I am two thirds of the way through.

More downhill before a flat finish. I try and push into a sprint for the last 5-600 metres and I am over the finish line. I have no idea of what my time was. I am pretty confident that I finished under 27 minutes but by how much, who knows. I forgot to wear my stopwatch and they didn’t tell us at the end.

I do know that the winners did it in about 18mins and the female winner wasn’t very far behind. She competed in the steeplechase in the Beijing games so I guess 18mins would be about as quick as it gets over the course. Out of about 350 runners I would like to think that I would be in the top 100 but again who knows?

Overall it was quite an enjoyable run. I would like to do a few more of these shorter runs over our summer as long as it isn’t any mountain lunacy then 5-10km runs would be a good distance to be able to just rock up and run (although there is a flat half marathon on the 4th Jan that is tempting too?)

As someone says quite often "Enjoy the Journey" and I did without it being a distraction from trying to put on some muscle.

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