10k PB News!

I'm happy to post that at the Jimmy Irvine Bella 10k event at Bellahouston on 8th November, I took a whole 3m 15s off my 10k personal best. It now stands at 51m 19s. I reckon the reason for this is that I hadn't actually run an official 10k event for 14 months, but I had clearly been improving while doing other events. I knew I was already running around 53m or so during the first 10k of some half marathons, so it's not that big a surprise I suppose. Still delighted. 

Next year I'm going to focus on significantly reducing all my PBs, so this might make me revaluate what I should aim for in the 10k. That's for another post though. 

The Bellahouston Road Runners (@bellaroadrunner) event was excellently organised with a turnout of 519 runners. I ran it with two pals from work, Ken and Niall. Their PBs for the 10k are both faster than mine so it was pleasing that we all finished not too far apart from each other. The weather was also conducive to a good run, as you can see from this pre-run photo. 

Tomorrow I'm heading down to Stratford-upon-Avon with Chris for the Shakespeare Half Marathon, which takes place on Saturday 15th November.  It's the eleventh of our '2014 Marathon A Month' mission. Undoubtedly this is a symptom of a midlife crisis. In a future post I'll be looking back at the highlights of each of the half marathons. The experiences have been varied to say the least.

Later.

F