Did my 8th parkrun today and having done a steady 30 min 5.3k run on Thursday I was intending to go for a slightly faster pace today. Lined up with a few friends near the front but they are faster than me so there was no chance I could keep up with them. I'm always a bit cautious for the first 200m but got into my running after that and settled down into a good pace. I set my phone using strava to give me time checks every 0.5k. Got to the 1st k in under 5 mins and thought it was hard which was understandable due to the 40mph headwind. So it was a case of digging in and trying to maintain the pace until the turn. Our parkrun course is an out and back one and is quite flat with only a couple of little hills. So made it to the turn and was still on course for a good time. Thankfully now the wind was behind me. I always find the forth kilometre is the hardest and could feel my pace dropping a bit. Somehow or other I managed to push through until the last 500m and even kicked on to the finish line. Official parkrun time was 24.57 but my stopwatch time was 24.53 which would be a new pb. Delighted with that.
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