Notes
Nearly perfect run. Started out a little quicker than planned, but felt ok. Up until 8km, legs were quite tight, but once they loosened was feeling great. Managing 4:30s up the few hills, and around 4:05 down. Adie was pushing the pace, and slowly inched off from around 17km. Went through 21km to go at 1:28:00 on the dot and was feeling good, but held any thoughts of pushing until 30km mark, was thinking of a 2:55ish under ideal conditions. Got to 30km, still feeling good, about the same since 21, but didn't want to push yet. 10km to go, I managed to see Adie about a km ahead, it looked as if he was slowing, and started to make an effort to catch him. The road turned right, and led onto a straight 3km road, where I hovered at just above 4 min/km. 5km to go I caught a bunch of runners and noticed I was running 3:45/3:55 but felt ok. I plugged away here and then caught Adie with about 3km to go, ran with him for a bit, but noticed I was doing 4:15s so decided to go for it for the last few kms. Held onto sub 4 pace and very happy with the time.