Running 45:00 [3] 10.0 km (4:30 / km)
shoes: ASICS gel Luminous #2 (Blue)
Run down to Cramond from office. Legs seriously wondering what the point of trying to race is.
Running race 15:11 [3] 5.0 km (3:02 / km)
shoes: Asics Hyperspeed #2
Shut up legs.
A steady start left me deep in the third group after the lollipop. Realised I needed to make the jump up to the seconds group, c 30m ahead, so focussed on that for the first half of the return. Once I got on their tails and in a bit of shelter it was relatively easy to work through to the front of that group, which I did at the final turn. I tried to keep the momentum going but faltered with 600 to go and Mr Leitch and a couple of others came through. When. I saw the clock and no chance of <15 I cruised it in a bit. 10th in the end. PW for the course.
Thanks to Tom (5th in 14:47) and Jonny (13th in 15:18) and new three to score format HBT took the national title: our first male title at any discipline since 2006.