Rutherglen Fun Run 10km

Cold, foggy, windy, hilly. Five of us fighting it out from the start. Everything you would expect from young triathletes / athletes with surging and nobody happy to run in a pack. Splits: 1km 3:00, 4km 12:53, 5km 16:08 (wow!), 8km 26:53, 10km 34:38. 4th, 1st M50+. Never more than 150m between top 4, 5th place dropped off at 6km. From the turn at 6.5km dead straight into the wind and a series of four long hills. Near the finish the gaps closed up, top 4 finished in rapid succession, less than 30 seconds 1st to 4th. Very happy, aggressive whole race.

In the Afternoon a bouncy 10km at 4:00/km, 24km for the day, 132km for the week.

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