well i ran at clevedon tonight and it proved to be another painful lesson in how not to judge the pace of a race. here are the split times 1k 3:32 (projected 5k time 1740, 10k 35:20). 5k split 19:17 (projected 10k time 38:34). final time 41:17. lets just say that the last 2 or 3k i was absolutely hanging. the heat made it a real slog over the last couple of miles but i'm not going to make bad excuses for a race in which i showed appalling pace judgement and appalingly poor levels of fitness. the only positive i can take from tonight is this. i have learnt a lesson namely that i am a piss poor runner and if i ever want to make a mark on life i will have to find some thing else that i am good at or i will forever be consigned to the dustbin of pisspoor mediocrity. some people think that cycling might be the answer but i just don't know. what ever i have no plans to stop running at any point in the near future because lets face it my life would be unrecognisable if i ever won any thing and i just wouldn't know how to cope. at least failure is some thing i'm used to. i'm running a leg of the cotswold way relay on saturday week, sorry doing, not running, that is far to strong a word and it may give some of you the misleading impression that i'm some how an above average runner which is most certainly not the case. i'll sign off now before i start dragging the rest of you down to my level.
pete
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