
For those who don’t want a lot of reading you can skip to the end for the result and the Strava file with splits and times.
“What way are you going to run today, are you going to race hard?” Ais asked in the car on the drive down.
“I’m not fit enough to race for 32k. So I was thinking I’d go easy for 10k then pick it up a bit for the next 22k if the legs cooperate. What do you think?” I asked.
What I was really thinking was that I was very nervous at the prospect of a 32k run and was more concerned with survival than pace. I’ve probably run 20k once in the last six months and could count the number of actual training runs in the same period on the fingers of one hand. Read More