Notes
Great result, came fourth in the over 50s out of 10, and would have won a medal in the over 45s dammit :-) Might have gotten a smidge more out without 3 games of hockey in the previous two days :-)
Played two games and won them on day one, all team quite stiff on the monday. Played a hard game against the nightstix and lost but only 2 nil on day 2. So the worst day for stiffness so far...today ! We had a big night out for the opening ceremony, ross wilson and so on, sunday night we went over for a few I think, but monday we stayed in and rod did pasta and I ddint drink much which gave me a chance at least :-) So race day the boys dropped me at the athletics track and went on to hockey. all alone in a strange new worrld. athletics people. grabbed a seat in the grandstand, put down my bag, went and got my leg number 6 which was pretty good, chatted to a couple of the other guys, one said he hoped to beat 20 minutes said me too I think..warmed up with a lap or two, some streches then nervous wait for the line up. they did the ready set go thing. felt pretty stiff in the top of my thighs mainly from hockey.. at the gun I just merged in to line, and followed a guy who went on to do about 20 minutes, after two laps I felt confident enough to overtake. Some went past me and I think I went back past most of them. never saw the three 50s ahead of me. Passed af few with 3 or so laps to go and I remember thinking after going past, it was harder without an immediate target in my sights. By last lap, it was about 18 maybe 18.05 or so, but too stressed to caluulate what i might do. so happy to see 19.36 at the end. got picked up by dave after i had warmed down and did the big clebrateion at the function centre that night with glen mainly. great fun happpy ot beat 4 mins per km.