Great Ireland Run

This race was my first proper race when I started running a few years ago. Over a pint one night Tanya, Adam and myself decided to become world class athletes... we trained hard, on at least one occasion, and never forgot the social aspect of running by having a slap up meal and a rake of pints after every training session. Some may say the 5 million calories we consumed more than cancelled out the energy expenditure of the run but we knew better, after all Adam was an accountant and very good with all things numbery although he did have have a problem with decimal points. I, on the other hand, could not count past 2 but was a wizard with decimal points. He took the number bit while I worked my decimal point magic and between us we worked out that we could spend all night in the pub without any negative effects! I'm pretty sure that's how we divided the labour...

Back to this years run! I was hoping for a new 10K PB but just missed out by 50 seconds. I put it down to making a phone call on the last kilometer, it was a promise and well worth missing out on a PB for. My time was 54:58, that's an average pace of 08:46 minute miles. My best 10K is 54:07.

Here's the route of my race: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/30499471