Auckland Marathon Sunday Racing

I just finished a 5.244km run that lasted about 0hh:22mm:13ss !

A great picture after the race. Myself on the right running the 5km, Kirsty Pinder pacing for the half marathon, and Raewyn Barker running the full marathon.

I think I was expecting a lot from my body today and it didn't really hold up. Today was my first race after completing my first Ultramarathon two weeks ago. I knew I was going to struggle but still thought I would have it in me to run a quick pace. Last year I was on supporter duty for this weekend but was wanting to still be a part of the action this year, but happy to be running the shortest race for the day.

My girlfriend was pacing the 2:10 half marathon finishers and was grateful to be able see her finish before I needed to head to the start of the 5km run. I have been adding in some tempo runs at my hopeful race pace and I've been really impressed with my progress back to where I was a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately today was not going to be my day. My legs still had not recovered from the ultra and I was able to run hard for the first kilometer and was not able to keep the pace up for much longer than that. I shouldn't be disappointed at all with my run as I did get 12th over all and took out my age group, but I am sure a lot of the top runners were running the longer distances today. I didn't have any running races planned for the next couple of months but will look at getting some 5km races done to see if I can get back to where I would like to be.

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