The Selways go on tour…
Race Report
On Saturday Richard and I crept out of the house at the crack of dawn (well, 06:45 certainly felt like it) to catch a couple of trains to Battersea Park. It was a cool but dry morning with promise of some sun a bit later. As our beloved Norman Park parkrun was cancelled for this week we used the opportunity to double the pain in a 10k race on a lovely flat course. We registered on the day for the wonderfully low key but well organised leafy park race and set off at 8am on a 3 and a bit lap course. At a guess there were at most a couple of hundred runners so no start of the race argy bargy to get into the flow of the race. It was well marshalled and a lovely flat course so no excuses I thought for a good time. Richard was pacing a friend and colleague who was hoping to break 40 min and true to form he, Richard, achieved his goal precisely. Our time at the half way point was called out to is which was a great touch. I strived to keep a 7min 30 pace but with a fairly sparse number of runners lost my concentration as the chap I was running alongside for half the race took off into the distance at an increased pace. Couldn’t keep up and my pace slipped by. The beauty of doing laps I found was that I could try to claw back some pace on the last lap and with Richard cheering like mad on the home straight I did a fairly good impression of a sprint finish. The finishing time was called out as runners crossed the line and yes I achieved a PB in 47min 04 which leaves me with the next goal of running sub 47! Always looking to the next goal. I d recommend a Battersea race, there are several scheduled over the summer of various distances.
Georgina
