Started out fairly high up as every year I seem to get stuck behind poorly seeded runners who tend to hold me up a bit. Same thing happened this year, the gun went off and a group of 10 people right in front of me started out on a pace which would have probably been close to a 6 minute km. After struggling to find room to pass them I had to weave in and out of other poorly seeded runners to find some room. Hit the first km marker in a dissapointing 4:07, last year my first km was 4 mins flat, so I started to pick up the pace to make up for the easy 1st km. Fired off 2 quick km's in 3:52 and 3:51 and then hit the 4th km which is the start of a slow gradual climb, managed a 3:59 and still felt really good and was starting to get pumped that I might be able to pull off a sub 40 10km which is one of my goals for this season. That's when I ran into trouble, about halfway through the 5th km you come out of a sheltered cove onto a long 3.5km stretch along the water that is not sheltered and the wind was insane, I struggled over the next 4km's to keep up my pace although I was still passing lots of people so I felt as though I was running strong, but the timme just wasn't happening. As I hit the last km I was feeling pretty good so I pushed as hard as I could for the last km trying to go under 41, but I just missed it!!! Oh well, I beat my new PB from 2 weeks ago 41:31 by 25 seconds so I was still extremely happy with my time.

Not much to be honest other than maybe try and seed myself even higher up, although I do not want to be blocking people who are faster than me either so what can you do??? Nothing I can do about the wind and I felt I ran the race I needed to so all in all I am very happy with my execution.

Jogged to my car to grab some warm clothes and then waited for my friends at the finish to cheer them on.


The wind. No doubt.


Pretty good race, lots of fan support, although they need to do something for better after race activities.