Run race (Coastal Classic) 2:40:09 [5] 29.53 km (5:25 / km) +777m 4:48 / km
shoes: Brooks Trance 10
Started with Prong about 3 minutes behind the lead pack to take it a little easier through the first few km's. I was always going to start off easy as I haven't been training much lately and my achilles problem had always seemed to be around. Prong pulled away down through Burning Palms but I could see him for most of the race varying between 30 and 90 seconds behind. I was feeling pretty good considering lack of fitness and eventually caught Prong with about 5km to go and finished pretty strong.
Achilles problem seems to have been fixed from the physio appointment of Tuesday which is great :) I had extreme doubts that it would flare up on a long hard slog like that. And somehow I beat last year's time with only a couple of weeks training. I think I finished in 19th in 2.40.09 as opposed to 5th in 2.41.41 last year. Prong did well to beat his 2010 time by over 10 minutes and only a couple of minutes behind. This should put us in good shape to start a good Summer's training.