No wind and cloud cover greeted us at Memorial Day at Nathan on Saturday morning.
It was 25 O C at 8;00am and humidity was into 90's %.
Alan Bradford and Col McLeod, two of the all time greats of Queensland Masters athletics were warming up on the track when I went for my 3km warm up around ANZ.
In the car park getting out of his car none other than King Ronnie Peters!
Coach Pete would have been drooling at the sight of these 3 greats joining us for the 5000.
Some how I got missed off the start list and joined the walkers on the staggered start then got redeemed to the runners start.
I planned to run easy first laps before applying some effort.
The conditions were providing two out of three positives, no wind and cloud cover,
how much does high humidity cost?
200m in 35, 1km in 3:08 , I was feeling OK and surprised at that 1st KM.
I put my head down and concentrated on the overtaking!
It felt like I was overtaking some of the walkers twice a lap (is that possible?)
3000 in 9:38 was another good marker for me just 8 secs off pace and I'm not not on my last legs staying strong. I continued to work hard.
I got to the bell with the line clock reading 14:48 and I'm thinking just a 72 for 16:00 but I don't give it everything until the final hundred so finish in 16:02.
I have to be happy with that as surely running an evening meet with the kids early next year should provide the opportunity for sub 16 and maybe even a crack at Bradford's Queensland record 15:51.
Results are here; http://www.mastersathletics.com.au/pdf.ashx?id=67
It was 25 O C at 8;00am and humidity was into 90's %.
Alan Bradford and Col McLeod, two of the all time greats of Queensland Masters athletics were warming up on the track when I went for my 3km warm up around ANZ.
In the car park getting out of his car none other than King Ronnie Peters!
Coach Pete would have been drooling at the sight of these 3 greats joining us for the 5000.
Some how I got missed off the start list and joined the walkers on the staggered start then got redeemed to the runners start.
I planned to run easy first laps before applying some effort.
The conditions were providing two out of three positives, no wind and cloud cover,
how much does high humidity cost?
200m in 35, 1km in 3:08 , I was feeling OK and surprised at that 1st KM.
I put my head down and concentrated on the overtaking!
It felt like I was overtaking some of the walkers twice a lap (is that possible?)
3000 in 9:38 was another good marker for me just 8 secs off pace and I'm not not on my last legs staying strong. I continued to work hard.
I got to the bell with the line clock reading 14:48 and I'm thinking just a 72 for 16:00 but I don't give it everything until the final hundred so finish in 16:02.
I have to be happy with that as surely running an evening meet with the kids early next year should provide the opportunity for sub 16 and maybe even a crack at Bradford's Queensland record 15:51.
Results are here; http://www.mastersathletics.com.au/pdf.ashx?id=67
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