The Winter season has begun. Last weekend was the first race I've done since the national champs in mid-April: The perth HBF Run for a Reason 4km. I opted for the shorter distance race as I am also racing the Leonora Golden Mile this weekend (flying out tomorrow morning) and the 14km race would have set the energy reserves back a bit too much to back up well against the boys coming over from the East to race Leonora.
HBF went well, the game plan was to not make any unnecessary moves until the last kilometre of the race. However, after 2km when a few tactical moves were made in the lead pack (namely from Kenji Nener and Gerry Hill) I had to react and ended up covering the attacks & then making a break with 1500m to run. I ended up winning by 20 seconds with a time of roughly 11:28, ten seconds faster than last year and it felt pretty good for only a month's worth of training.
After a 50minute cool down to pick up more Ks for the week I performed 7 massages that afternoon on the sore bodies of some of my mates who had run the further race distance that morning. No rest for the wikid, or in my case a Physio who has friends who like to take make use of that fact.
Leonora this weekend should be a good race. I've headed up there for the past 2 years and finished last (8th) in the final of the elite mile. This year with some of the big names absent and some better form from myself I am hoping to finish much higher up the ladder.
I'll try to check back in with an update after the weekend.
Gotta run
:-) Marc
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