Annual Event

This morning was the 3Km TT, I was so nervous. On my way home from work on Monday night I was trying to work out what I wanted to do. I thought sub 13 ie: 12.59 was going to be good, with the hope of scoring a pb on my next one just prior to GCM. I decided to try and back off a bit with the pressure, so promised myself not to look at the splits other than the 1.5km turnaround which I wanted to get to in under 6.30 to make the 13mins achievable.

I ran down to Westend with Mark, it was his first Pat session and it was nice for once for a new face to not be new to me. I swear the group doubles in size fortnightly and we will need name tags soon. Anyway, the strides were feeling good and I was feeling pretty confident that I was going to get the 13, but you just never know until you get out there and actually start running.
The TT started. For once I felt like I wasnt being swallowed up by the group, so either I had started right at the back or I was actually running a bit faster than usual. Some of the usual suspects started to break away from the pack, the gap was stretching out there but I didnt feel like I was falling back too much like usual. At 500meters there is a slight hill, all good so far, the windchill kicked in at 1km and I was thinking about that and how cold my hands were and then there was the 1.5turnaround. Watch check... 6.18. Cool, 12seconds under target but with two small hills on the way back I figured the extra seconds were going to come in handy to keep it to 13mins.

Just as I was starting to tire on the last hill good ol' Matty stopped and waited for me and then proceeded to run the last 300meters in with me. I could have quite happily sat down before I got to the finish, I wasnt hurting so much as just had nothing left to give. I could hear Pat calling out 12.37, 36, 38 as I entered the chute. My pb of 12.49 was within in reach..... 12.44 I crossed the line and then promptly found a curb to hold on to.

I'm so excited a new pb, one year after my previous one of 12.49.

So on that basis this time next year I'll have another new pb.... hopefully they'll be a couple in between as well! :)