6FT Race Report- Finally

After cruising to victory in SStriders 10k the Sat before, I felt confident that I should run OK in the 6FT. My final hitout prior was a 3kTT on Tues at Mingara. Weather was fine, I ran 8.51 feeling very relaxed. But on the side, I had sustained a slight injury to my plantar fascia after the Striders race on Sat. It was under control, but was of concern.

The Start: Found myself going down the stairs in about 20th spot, was not concerned as I wanted to go easy at the start. Stopped to do a (edit - wee) and tie up my shoe, and lost about 10 spots, but was still not concerned at all.

The Middle: As I tried to up the pace once down the bottom, um, I was concerned as I felt like it was a real effort for me to change pace, which is not a normal thing. From that point on, my 6FT was just a slogging, grinding run. My immediate goal was just to finish, and not to walk at all. Was happy to finish 9th and not 10th (apologies to the 10th person *Webmistress*). After reading the final results, I was very surprised to find that I ran the 2nd fastest time up the hill. I had no strength at all going up that hill, and just ran easy.

Summary: A couple of good things came out of the race - one was seeing my daughter at the finish, and 2) - Still hold the course record for King of the Mountain.

PS. Can I quickly say a big thank you to my support crew, my manager, my coach, my masseur, my medical doctor, my psychiatrist, psychologist and my number one fan (*most of the time*), Di. (*Ohh, thanks*). And of course, thanks to the little garden gnome himself, Kevin Tiller (*and the firies, and all the people who handle all the other stuff that we don't see*).

run run as fast as you can..you can catch me because i am not a marathon man

have not been running much ,after 6foot...will try and start hard tarining this week,with one goal,to beat Chriss Truschot in every race we have..and take out the 2008 P.A.C.T distance runner of the year