Harlow Running Club

Fetch Hard B@*stards Mile - 5th June

These races are completely unofficial and organisd by the internet site www.fetcheveryone.com. They are always good fun events as I rarely get to race over short track distances. If nothing else, this was going to be a good track interval type session to kick start my summer training regime.

Race Length: 1 mile

PB: 5.40

Target Time: 5.39

Outcome: 5.39

Nemesis Score: 0 (potential nemesis overslept - running scared I say!)

Splits: 1.22 1.22 1.27 1.27

 This was always going to be a tough ask as 1 mile flat out on a track seriously hurts.

Initially, I thought that I was going to be running alongside a lady of approximately my speed (although she is much faster over 5 miles – marathon distance). She unfortunately slept in, and the others in the race were either 20-30 seconds faster, or 20-30 seconds slower, so I was also essentially going to be running this one on my own. To get the best out of such a short distance, you need to have someone near you. When I set my PB at the last fetch mile, there were other runners to keep the pressure on. There was one faster, but only just such that you think you can get them. Another would be a few seconds behind breathing down my neck. There was another runner who put a massive sprint from nowhere, beating me on the line, but no doubt enabled me to eek out another second! These things push you forward when it hurts.

Although I got a PB (just), the race did not go as I wanted. I was hurting from halfway and could not put on a final sprint until I realised it was going to be very close.

Race Length: 800m

PB: 2.44

Target Time: 2.40

Outcome: 2.35

Splits: 1.15, 1.19

The first lap of this race went very well. I was hanging just off the back of the faster mile runners, so clearly I had gone off too fast! The second lap was slower, despite a sprint. Perhaps with better pacing, I could have gone a little faster overall; however I did get a very good PB 

Race Length: 400m

PB: 1.11

Target Time: 1.10

Outcome: 1.09

I so hate this distance! You have to go out hard and try and hold it. Get it wrong and your time will be either very slow, or you blow up. It was painful and I had tunnel vision from 200m, but I did manage a power sprint to the line. I won the race too in a PB time. (OK the faster 2 runners sat this one out…

100m

PB: 0.15

Target Tiime: 0.14

Outcome: 0.14

Not much to say on this as I am not a sprinter! It was just a case of head down and just go! My time is to the nearest second as there were not enough timekeepers to take every runner.