The results are in...
* Yes, I DID enjoy it!
* I stuck to the plan – steady start, pick up effort from 6k, finish strong
* Average HR only 166 vs typical 170 for me in a 10k, which reflects the restrained start.
* Time = 40:15, 2 minutes quicker than 2 weeks ago at Bishops Stortford
* Mile-pace quicker (only just!) than in Rotterdam Marathon in April 2010!
All-in-all, a nice evening out and a pretty good time considering I’ve only been back running for just over 3 weeks. In 2007 it took me 7 months to get from 42m to 40m for 10k, so it certainly does seem true that lost fitness is easier to recover than create in the first place.
I shall adopt the same conservative race-approach for the final MWL race and it will be interesting to see what another 3-weeks of training does to my fitness.
Unfortunately, the team results leave us in danger of relegation :’-(. I don’t think we are much weaker (if at all) than last year, it’s just that FVS have improved a bit and Barnet have decided to take the MWL seriously for a change!
I urge all Squirrels to make every effort to make it to the final MWL in St Albans on 30th June, as very small changes in attandance can have dramatic effects on results!! In the men's race last night, we were only 4 race-places (spread across all 12 scorers) behind FVS! If this had been reversed, we would now have same league pts as FVS rather than 2 fewer.
How it is (what might have been in parenthesis)
1. GCR.....34
2. SAS.....31
3. BAD.....18
4. FVS.....18 (17)
__________________________ the line of relegation-doom!
5. NHRR...16 (17)
6. BS ........9
Unfortunately, we are way behind both FVS and B&D in place-points overall, so would need to make a net gain of 3 league pts over one of them them in the final race. A tall order, but not impossible if we turn out in full-force.
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