Team run - 11th of August

Today we went for our first team outing it quite some time, but now sporting our natty new running tops.  The aim was to run 10k with a pace of 10:30mins per mile.  I was a bit wary of the distance before starting as I hadn’t run further than 3 miles in the previous couple of months, but figured it should be alright as the pace was going to be a lot slower than I was used to.

We all met up and began to run down the downs link.  Nick started off pace making, which he said was somewhat erratic, though I didn’t notice much.  As I had suspected the 10:30 pace was easily achievable, and I felt like I could have gone a lot further than 10k.  The run is self was enjoyable as I was able to catch up, whilst not pushing myself to hard.  Towards the end, Tom’s and my GPS had got out of sync, so I ran back on myself to make up the distance.  For this last kilometre I picked up the pace to what I had been doing on the last few runs, which felt like a good way to end.  Afterwards I had to cycle ~3/4 miles home, which I was pleased to say was no more difficult than when I have done so without a run beforehand.

Distance: 6.4 miles

Time: 1:06:49

Pace: 10:25mins/mile