Notes
I think I made every rookie mistake possible for this race:
1) I haven't been out on the road much (because of my bronchitis). Nearly all runs this year were on the TM
2) I ran 4 days in a row, including 2 hard runs.
3) Made a nice pasta dish yesterday. Spooky thought so too and had some straight out of the pan. Ofcourse, I then didn't eat any. Let the boys eat though and didn't tell them until they were finished (bad mom). Which meant I had no dinner yesterday evening. I just had a bowl of serial with full fat yoghurt and a pear for desert. This all added up to tired legs today. Energy level seemed OK though.
The wind was cold and we ran 8 kilometers straight into the wind. My legs just never seemed to warm up. And my legs did not want to make the effort to push into the wind. When the race just started, I was dead last. I wanted to run my own race and not kill myself trying to keep up with the fast people, who all seemed to be here.
I managed to pass 3 runners in the first half of the race. Then I was on my own. I find it extremely difficult to maintain a fast pace if there's noone ahead of me to focus on.
Anyways, unofficially I finished in 1:45:51. Faster then my September race, but still not even close to a PR.