I ran the Stromlo Forest Park 7.5k cross country race today. It was three laps of the large grass circuit whose surface is a bit rough but improving, thank goodness. My aim was 4:30 per k again but I had run 10k starting four hours earlier and after hard runs Wednesday Thursday and Friday could have been excused for a poor run. But I am determined to make 4:30 pace second nature, wanting to run (at least) a half marathon at that pace or better this year.
At the finish I was given the 33rd place tag, and my time was 33:33. Which is interesting as the 5k race yesterday, the Customs Handicap, was 22:22 which, for the mathematically challenged among the readers, I can report is exactly the same pace.
Also, to save you doing the maths, 4:30s for the 7.5k would have been 33:45, so I got under it by 12 seconds.
Only two weeks now to the half marathon!
5k Customs Handicap 9/4
Bronwyn 22:41
Me 22:41
Yili 22:46
Sharene 30:10 (1st on handicap)
5k Customs Handicap 16/4
Yili 21:28
Brett 21:51
Me 22:22
Bronwyn 22:52
Thea 24:57
Margaret at Stromlo
Debbie leading Helen at Stromlo
At the finish I was given the 33rd place tag, and my time was 33:33. Which is interesting as the 5k race yesterday, the Customs Handicap, was 22:22 which, for the mathematically challenged among the readers, I can report is exactly the same pace.
Also, to save you doing the maths, 4:30s for the 7.5k would have been 33:45, so I got under it by 12 seconds.
Only two weeks now to the half marathon!
5k Customs Handicap 9/4
Bronwyn 22:41
Me 22:41
Yili 22:46
Sharene 30:10 (1st on handicap)
5k Customs Handicap 16/4
Yili 21:28
Brett 21:51
Me 22:22
Bronwyn 22:52
Thea 24:57
