Feeling bullish after a reasonable outing earlier in the week. Time to rerun the course from a few days before. Marcus was unwell so it would have to be a solo effort. I’m usually much better when being pulled along, but just have to see how it goes.
The first section goes well and I manage to run the whole of the steep hill and with a bit more pace. I started out old style then picked it up only dipping towards the end. If I can keep it all below 7 mins / km next time I’ll be happy.
However I then spot someone i haven’t seen for ages walking up the hill to football on the brand new 5G pitch at the school. So I stop for a distance 2.5 min chat. Great for recovery bad to comparisons. I wonder what the net effect is, this was just at the beginning of a nice downhill stretch. The rest of the run goes well with a bit of cheering on as I pass a pub on the last 100m.
So overall 5:08 / km for 3.84km (moving time courtesy of Strava so my chat eliminate I assume). Not going to complain, not sure what effect the chat had.
