My last race of the calendar year was an opportunity to take advantage of all my marathon training and have a go at getting a decent PB, and that was exactly how it turned out. I finished the race with a chip time of 1:26:00, knocking 87 seconds off my previous best, finishing in 40th place of 583 finishers.
I raced in Aspe two years ago, I ran a PB then too, and followed that up with PB's in my following three races, I have my fingers crossed that I can repeat the feat now.
In Aspe, I was aiming to run at 4:00min/km pace, after a slow first kilometre I got into my rhythm and I ended the first 5k inside my target pace (19:51), the next two 5k splits were almost exactly on target (20:01 and 20:09 respectively) but from there I started to struggle to keep the pace up, I wasn't helped by a strong, cold wind, the fourth 5k was done in 21:23. I found my form again for the last kilometre, getting back on 4min/km pace. Looking at the splits it seems that running under 1:25 is within my grasp and that will be my aim in the next race.
Seeing as the year is about to come to a close I'll be back soon with my New Year running resolutions, until then...
Happy Running
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