Harlow Running Club

XCOUNTRY: Bishops Stortfrod (Race 2 of 4) – 21st November

Race Length: 4.77 miles

Course Best:

Target Time:

Outcome: 37.22

Nemesis Score: -1 (1 runner)

Splits: 6:55 8:14 7:30 7:54 (6:18 - 0.77M)

A belated blog entry as this was such a poor performance, I just did not gaet around to it...

I can summarise this race with the following...  A year ago today, I ran the 2009 St Neots Half Marathon in 1:30:45 just beating a nemesis to the line.  Today that same person ran the 2010 race a minute faster where had I been there too, based on todays performance, I would have struggled for 1:40.

I set off trying to keep with a runner that I do battle with over local 10K's and kept with them up until the end of the horrible ploughed field on the uphill climb away from the motorway.  At the top of the hill, they started to pull away, and I found myself completely on my own on the track back towards the start.  I felt isolated, was hurting and started to go backwards.  I got caught by SA, JB and MJ on the second loop.  I tried desperately to hang on to them, but to no avail.  I just finished fast enough to prevent anyone else overtaking.

Not impressed...