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A really good race and you can put that memory of ending up in the medical tent at Seville as history.
We discovered today that the new England Athletics road running platform Run Events has issues. This meant the Ivybridge 10K did not appear on the new system You can still enter the fantastic Ivybridge 10K using the link to the old system which is available on our website race page https://www.ermevalleyharriers.co.uk/ivybridge-10k/
I'd decided to aim for 3:15,no real reason to think it was achievable but it felt right.
This is my 4th Manchester but not done it since 2019 and the course has changed a bit,you now go towards the city,it makes it more spectator friendly but also hillier.10k went by smoothly enough,about 30s ahead of plan but in control,so decided to slow very slightly to avoid blowing up,got to Halfway 15s under target I think,and HR was under target so felt good,so thought I could speed up a little again,the only real hill is about 16m in but it was fine,and the crowds when you get to the top were brilliant and I went good down hill,got to 30k and still really strong so felt it was all going well but after this I slowed just a little,I felt I had more to give so decided to put more effort in but I was starting to slow a little now,I realised 3:15 was a bit if a stretch but I was fine with that.
About 23m I felt my hamstring tighten but altered my stride and it went,but at 24m it suddenly went into spasm and I had to pull over to get rid of it,it cost me just under 2 mins,once it went I managed to get back to pace and finished smiling.
OH had a little lesson today,she went out a bit fast and paid at the end,still her 2nd fastest time and only 2 mins behind seville on a harder course but she'll learn from it.
Still a very good run by your OH too and her splits were good.
Now when I tagged you, your OH and HA from the Trotters I noticed that the silhouette of HA was different from yours and your OH.
So later on I checked the results and my suspicions were confirmed that your OH was listed in the results as Male.
You might want to correct that or not?
Incidentally HA ,the Trotter that passed you in the latter stages is a former DD winner.
HA was running very well when I seem her,she was gliding past everyone.
She's also brilliant at Ironman events. She's also very modest about her achievements.
Vos is deadly on a sprint finish.
Running rest day today, Pilates and Stretch this morning.
Couple of thoughts about the general race.
Crowds were immense,esp Altrincham,it really gave a boost.
I wish spectators weren't allowed in the cricket ground after,it was too busy,got some food and couldn't even sit on benches because Joe had 15 of his family taking up 3 tables.
The course could take more runners but I did see a couple clip ankles and go over,if so they need longer water stations or on both sides of road sometime.
Very easy to cheat if that way inclined,only 3 timing mats,and none at the furthest points of the course,1 in the centre and 1 in Altrincham would help solve this.
Seems like they'll increase numbers for Manchester next year, they were saying it filled 3 months before race day this year and plan to be bigger next year. But I did notice that there could be lots of places to cut the route short with a lot of sections having runners going in both directions on the same stretch of road and only using cones to separate them. They definitely need more timing mats, however your tracker did track you for the whole distance. So even, for instance, there wasn't a timing mat at 17 miles the tracker showed me that's where you were, whether they can access that data historically, I don't know. Hope they sort out the post race area, that's important to get that right.
Hope the legs are feeling OK today.
It would be ridiculously easy to cut nearly 6m off,at the start run 200m,then mingle in the crowd,wait 50 mins and the 10k mat is on the other side of the road.
Will watch that later on Eurosport.
Unusual for the Trotters to have such bad marathon races, not as if it was weather related. Just one of those days I guess.
Which other UK marathons are still on your wish list?
Every/any marathon is on my wish list right now😭
There are very few road marathons in Scotland now, there used to be more.
Don't blame you for not wanting to do Edinburgh, I wouldn't do it either.
Dublin is getting harder to get a place now, was hoping to buy a place from a sports tour company next year if I don't get a ballot place but they're no longer selling entry only. It is a great weekend.
There are plenty good marathons in Ireland. Cork is really good, but surprisingly hotels for that weekend are dearer than for Dublin marathon. It's a Bank Holiday that's why.
Challenging but good Pilates and Stretch classes. Half way through Pilates a storm came overhead and we thought the roof of the leisure centre was going to take off. 😱
OH has had her result changed already,pretty impressed it was done so quickly.
Spent this morning doing my plan for September.Trying to build some faster stuff in to it to see if I can get quicker and trying to race monthly as that's when I do my best,that's been missing the last couple of years.
That was quick correcting the admin error.
Lemma is going for it at Boston,on course record pace after 10k,and that was with a bigger tailwind,hope he doesn't pay up the Newton hills.