A brilliant run with the midweek work running group handicap thing today... took off with two young guys who wanted me to pace them to a PB of "about 28:15", i.e. the time I ran last week for the 5.7km circuit. Being young (mid-20s), they of course wanted to take off too fast but I kept their pace steady for the first 2km before ramping it up to PB pace in the 3rd km and then levelling off a tad.
Am pleased to say they came 2nd and 3rd out of 14 in the handicap event with lil ol' me a close 4th. I struggled home in 27:34, which is 4:50 pace - quite probably making it a personal 5km PB...
So, chuffed again.