Stromlo Trail Running Festival 10km 38 minutes, 2nd, 1st M50+

Sunday morning 10km event in the Stromlo Trail Running Festival. A brutal course when done full gas, up or down with 250m vertical of climbing, on rough, wide forest trails aside from the criterium track start and finish. Pre-race I had thoughts of sitting in and enjoying the run. Those thoughts changed in the first 100m when the eventual winner took off crazy fast. I chased him the entire course with around 20-30 second gap hoping he would crack. He was slow on the late climbs but never slow enough to let me back in the game. My heart rate stayed at 171bpm for 31 minutes of the race, less on the long fast down hill descent to the finish. The great Robert De Castella was there to call the race.

Splits (500m, min/km): 3:58,3:55,3:27,4:30,4:44,4;07,3:34,3:45,3:49,4:32,3:23,5:06,3:55,4:42,3:07,3:27,3:15,3:25,3:25,3:15

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