A little less scared

Well, firstly, thanks for all the comments, its great to hear I'm not the only person ever to be feeling a litte unsure and it sounds like it should be okay. I particularly like the idea of tying the balloon to someone else :) A special big thanks though to Tess, who turned up on Wednesday night at our nutrition talk with her garmin for me, which I test-drove this morning.

This mornings run didnt have a plan as such, other than I was going to do my big loop and see how the pacing went a la Garmin style. The first couple of Ks are under tree's and a I lost a bit of distance here, the same thing happened a couple more times, but on the whole I think it would be a fairly accurate representation. I did 10km trying to keep to race pace of 5.24/k, then 5km comfortably, then the last 5km (well 4.5) at race pace again.
Below is the table of what the race splits should be, and then on the right column what mine were this morning...


km Splits
1 5:27 - 6.13
2 10:54 - 11.54
3 16:21 - 16.59
4 21:48 - 22.43
5 27:15 - 27.42
6 32:42 - 32.54
7 38:09 - 38.13
8 43:36 - 43.26
9 49:03 - 48.46
10 54:30 - 53.59
11 59:57 - 59.39
12 1:05:24 - 1.04.57
13 1:10:51 - 1.10.33
14 1:16:18 - 1.16.11
15 1:21:45 - 1.22.07
16 1:27:12 - 1.27.30
17 1:32:39 - 1.32.13
18 1:38:06 - 1.38.13
19 1:43:33 - 1.42.19
20 1:49:00 - n/a
21 1:54:27 - n/a
21.1 1:55:00 - n/a

On the whole fairly pleased with that, a bit of a shakey start, partly attributed to lack of signal and also probably me, I always find it takes me the first couple of k's to settle in, and I'm sure the start of this race will be no different to anyother, the game plan is to be on track by 3km though... and hopefully through to 21.1km!


Other things this week;
Had two fantastic sessions at Pats this week, the legs were turning over nicely for once, rather than just hardwork it is starting to become good fun and hard work again.
We also had a nutrition talk on Wednesday night, it was in fact the same nutrition talk as last year, but I felt different things were relevant to me this year, I have since gone out and bought some Iron supplements. I spoke to the lady at the chemist and the type she recommended apparently have some other added mineral particularly useful to athletes, she could be telling porkies, I dont know, but I'm happy to try it out :)