The event was well organised and there were loads of people in fancy dress or very little dress to raise the attention for the cause. Nancy and I are both commented on the fact there was a great deal of flesh on show and somewhat distracting.
Anyway, the race course was along the Vancouver seawall and so was flat, except for one incline at the 8.5K mark which led onto and up the Burrard Bridge. It was a warm evening and I needed a couple of water stops to keep going, but in this race I wasn't held up by other runners. My time, according to my Ipod was 51 minutes and 16 seconds, subject to confirmation from the official timekeeping from the organisers. This is easily my personal best time for 10K and beat my last time by over five minutes. As you can imagine I am well chuffed!
I have one more competitive 10K race planned for next weekend on 17th July before we fly out to Washington for the official challenge. So the aim now is to get to 50 minutes, which will be going some to keep a pace of 5min per KM.
ADDENDUM - Monday 12th July
My official race time has now appeared on the website and is 51mins 30 seconds.
127 51:30.62 5501 86/197 M Scott SHEARS
4 comments:
51 mins and 16 seconds!!! COME ON EVERYONE ELSE
My official race time was 51mins 30 seconds. I came 127th out of 557 runners, the winner did it in 36mins 3secs.
I cant believe you tried to con us by telling us you were 14 seconds faster than you were! frankly I am ashamed to call myself a friend! Come on Scott admit it, there was no run was there!!!! I am now going for breakfast and I will make it in 2 mins and 12 seconds... or will I ???
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