Yahoo!

Sub 55 10k - check.

In fact - pending official results - 54.27 - I am officially stoked!!

I was super anxious/nervous when I woke up this morning. I'm not sure why - but there you have it. I kindly had a lift up to North Head this morning which was great because somehow his way took half as long as my way did last time. hmmm...

I decided to leave my ipod with uncle dave but after the first mini loop I realised I needed it! So he kindly handed it over as I ran past. Lucky this is not triathlon - talk about outside assistance! From there there was no magic to it - I just had to stick to my pace for the first big lap and try and hold on for dear life on the second lap. And actually my pace picked up the second lap which is even better.

My Garmin measured the course long which I realised meant that I needed to pick the pace up because I couldn't rely on it. I thought I was well ahead of schedule but then the 55min pacer came past! He kindly dropped back to check up on me and pointed out that we could pick it up on the downhill ahead. I did and after about a k I got in front and managed to stay there till the end.

Some unreal runs this morning - Tigerangel was in amazing form. She took off immediately and Gnome said that she was scaring herself, but she is one lady who you know will hang on!! I have enjoyed running around the same pace as her for the last little while - but now she is off there is no stopping her! Go TA!!!

Also a couple of sub 40's - Horrie and Hamburglar - very nice work!!!

Was so nice to be back into it, and I just love catching up with everyone at the end. Makes the pain worth it :)

Yayyyyy!!!!!

(edit - splits were - 5.26, 5.27, 5.31, 5.20, 5.30, 5.30, 5.19, 5.08, 5.22, 5.10, 37s (the 138 m over that the garmin measured - apparently its probably that it gets confused in the little loop at the end and tries to make it a circle...)