Notes
The chip didn't work as I put it on my wrist not my shoe - so no official time.
I didn't have the best of preparations for this as we were in Crete where it was too hot to run, in Scotland where it was too rainy and then we lost the baby so I didn't have the heart to run.
Anyway, I turned up for this race and was feeling sleepy at the start. I took it far too hard for the first 2km as I was in a mood to run fast given the difficult circumstances. I've never ran a sub 4min km on a 10km before so I knew it was too fast! Well, I paid for that as I was shattered at 4km after climbing up to Sofia Kyrkan. I was aiming for PB but realised that this was not possible so fell back to a goal of sub45.
The next few km were tough and I felt like I was being constantly overtaken. At 7km I was tripped and almost fell. That took the last of the remaining wind out of me and I knew that sub45 was also gone as I would be slow on Mossebacke.
Mossebacke really was a struggle and the split times were getting really slow. I somehow managed to pull a sprint out from somewhere and managed to at least stay under 46 mins.
So a course record by 99 seconds. Although I started my watch slightly earlier than the actual start so I "gained" 3 or 4 seconds. But it's not a PB so I didn't adjust for this.