so the year ended on a negative note and started on a positive one. lets get the bad bits out the way first, starting with the annual club handicap on sunday morning. with a time defecit of 8 mins and 20 seconds to make up i only managed 20th place although i did knock over a miute off my best time for the course. special mention has to be made though for naomi speake a 14 year old who is currently on a journey right to the very top of athletics. tearing around the course just slightly quicker than i did, she smashed the course records for u15 females, u17 females, and u20's with a faster time than the u15 boys record to boot. to put it in perspective she is faster than both paula radcliffe jo pavey and kelli holmes were at that age. it would be no over exaggeration to say that she is a potential international superstar for 2016 or maybe 2012 if her rate of development continues at the current frightening rate.
the positive start to the year was my run down at the hangover 10k at kewstoke village yesterday. 9 secs outside my pb on a slow course, with 2 big hills on it, 9th place out of 172 finishers. the guy who beat me in 8th luke quillam only beat me by 7 secs and has run under 36 minutes for 10k before. annoyingly he walked away with a bottle of champagne as a prize and i got sweet fa. i have just entered my next 10k, the cardiff valentines 10k love rune, which sounds a bit gay really.
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