Grimsby 10k

So it’s been just over a week now since I raced the Grimsby 10k, training and life in general has been busy, so a late race report.

I’ve raced this event a few times now and it’s always a great one to do, nice course pretty flat and big pb potential to. Tho 6-9 k ish is pretty lonely on the duel carriageway, it’s a part of the race where you just have to dig in.

Arrived at the in plenty of time, so a good warm up done with plenty of drills and strides to get myself in the zone so to speak. This 10k was the event I was shooting for this year to bring down my PB.

I was feeling quite nervous on the start line but I knew the pace I had locked into (5:50-5:45) so as soon as the gun went off I got myself into the pace as soon as.

I was shooting for a low 36 or sub 36 if possible.

As the race was going I never felt settled like I have done in other races for some reason!? 🤔just felt tough, now it could be the heat, as it was getting warm, who knows but it was gonna be one of those races where I was gonna have to grind out a result.

Went through 5k in 17:48 ish, but as soon as I hit the duel carriageway it was definitely getting tough, I even slowed to get a cup of water as I felt I was overheating, but got back into my rhythm and pushed on to the finish straight.

Now coming off that carriageway was such a relief and seeing that final stretch was sooo nice 😂.

Crossing the line in 36:50 which is a 2sec PB, yes another 2sec PB, I knocked 2sec of in back in Lincoln last month 😂 . Chipping away at it as best I can. Was hoping for something a bit lower, but a pb is a pb so I’ll take it and move on to the next one.

Next race is Derby Half Marathon. Hopefully a sub 80min on the day figures crossed 🤞 for that….