Personal Best in Sutherland2Surf

Perfect running conditions today and all my training to-date paid off as I beat my previous Sutherland2Surf personal best by over 7 minutes, finishing in 42.03! My goal was sub-45 so I am very happy with my run.

I felt good from the start and my legs felt strong the whole way. I went out fast, covering the first 3km in under 11 mins and the 5km in 18.08. I decided to just keep up the pace as long as I could and while I slowed through the second half, by the time I reached 10km in 38 mins I knew I had smashed my goal!

I set PBs at each split of 3k, 5k, 8k and 10k so I'm looking forward challenging my own times in the City2Surf in two weeks.

Official times have not come out yet but based on last year's results 42mins could see me sneak into the top 100... I'll have to wait and see :)

Official results:
42.02 (41.54 net) puts me 108th (100th male) out of 3931 finishers!

Sutherland2Surf coming up...

Since I last wrote about a month ago, I have covered 208km and completed a series of long runs of 18km, 20km, 22km & 25km. This Sunday is the Sutherland2Surf 11km race so I will be having a week off the long run. My target time for the 11km is sub-45mins, which would be a personal best of over 4mins from last year but achievable given the amount of running I have been doing. I will probably go for a 3-4km job on Saturday to loosen up. I'm really looking forward to getting into a race start again after missing the half-marathon recently. Exciting!