2010, January: the road to Molly Malone's

[El Gordo]

It´s a pity that you got injured although ,in spite of it, you managed to finish quite well, EG. If you hadn´t got injured, you´d have done the 10 km under one hour for sure.

I hope you get better soon so that you can take part at Almería half feeling well.

Best of luck!

Antonio

Thanks Anlu. I've no idea if I'd have got under the hour, and it's sort of academic to wonder. Knowing me from past races, I tend to flop a bit towards the end, so I can't presume anything. Chances are I would have just missed out, but we'll never know, and there's no point in speculating. What was interesting was using the Garmin 'virtual partner' thing. It helped me keep a very steady pace for the first mile or two, and definitely a bit slower than I would have normally done. This was a very useful experiment, even if I was distracted by the leg problem a bit further on. It tells me it might benefit me to aim for steady average pace, instead of the classic mistake of going out too fast. Strange how I always advise new runners to do this, but tend not to do it myself.

Unless there's some unexpected complication, I fully intend doing the Almeria Half. Worst case scenario is to not feel able to go for a PB which was/is the plan. I'll see how I go between now and then.