So I went out comfortable and that equaled to a 5:59 first mile, which was fine and what I wanted to do. Even though I rode a hard 75 mile ride the day before. I wanted to go out at my target, fresh legs pace, I mean you never know what could happen. I didn't make a effort to keep that pace, I was just trying to stay comfortable. Which I did through the 10k mark, which was my plan. By the 10k mark I was a bit off 6min pace, maybe 6:12 pace by then. I had predicted I would run a 6:15 pace, considering the ride the day before and the last 3 weeks of training. At the 10k mark I thought that was still going to happen.

I'm not sure what happened, but a bit after mile 7, My legs just suddenly ran out of gas and mile 7.5-9 were way, way slow. I recovered a bit, but mentally I was out of it and didn't really bother lifting the pace back up over the last mile. A friend about 500m from the finish was yelling at me, I replied a few things. He later came up and said, I could tell you had eased up somewhere you were talking too easly for it being a end of a 10 miler.

Worse race perfomance of the year! :)

Meh, probably nothing. It was just a training run. Sure I would of liked not blowing up towards the end, so I suppose a bit slower pace at the start may of helped. But I did what I planned on doing, I just didn't expect to go from good to bad so quickly.

Eat pizza and then run back to the house with side stiches!


Worn out from training, but that was the idea! :)