2.6miles, teams of 4, 1 leg each, in the Shadow of Big Ben. Run over Two Bridges, start and finish by Westminster Bridge is a brief description of this event.
I run the first leg. I am stuck in the middle of quite a few starters. There is a little bit of argy-bargy but it doesn't slow me too much. Some people I am pretty sure are slower than me are not passed immediately though I soon do. Just past the MI5 building I make up a couple of place by navigating the stairs in a quick fashion.
I am going full-out but it doesn't feel sweet. I keep pushing. On the long straight to the finish we run through a Prom. I signal to some of the girls in their finest party dresses to move out my way; I'm not going to be stopping.
The last couple of hundred metres I start gurning as I push myself. Igor is there waiting for me though I have to push past a couple of people to set him off.
My target was sub-15 but perhaps that was unrealistic. In the end I am 15:23. This is 30 seconds faster than last year. When I crunch the numbers with a race predictor that is a 20:30ish 5km. This is my 5km PB but that is where I am running at the moment. So I am satisfied with the result
Target for next year is sub-15 and a team that does it under an hour. To do this I need to be running sub 20 for a 5km.
A great night
3.8km 15:23
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