Sunday, June 25, 2006

Kembla Joggers Half Marathon

Down to Dapto this morning for the Kembla Joggers Half Marathon. The PB of 87:16 was at this race last year. The plan today was to run under 90 minutes which would be great after the SMH 93mins.

The car beeped at 2 degrees as I drove past the Bulli turnoff but had gone back up to 7 degrees when I arrived at the start. My start was a bit too fast going through 2k in 8:10 which killed me later when we got to the first hill. I went through the 10k in 42:30. I managed to take about 3 runners on the run home from this point and finished in 88:48.

The time was a minute and a half outside the PB but relating it back to SMH Half last month I am 4 and a half minutes faster for the half on a course just as hard. So I'm very happy.

The male winner was Stephen Brown who ran 67:39. Breaking a 16 year old course record by 5 minutes. He is only 21 and is going to the World Mountain Running champs in August.

10 comments:

silverfox said...

Flake that is a bloody great run, well done fella.

Anonymous said...

Ditto the above mate, you're back pal!

Congrats!!!

Don Juan said...

Well done Paul. Impressive improvement since SMH 1/2. PB's not far away.

Spud said...

Jeez, didn't take you long to get back to speed then did it? Great run mate, keep it going.

Martin said...

nice run flake! These stressies just make us stronger :)

Jen said...

Awesome result Flakey! You are cetainly back :-) Congrats.

Horrie said...

Great run Flake. You are getting very close to your pre SF form. You have certainly come back with a bang. You will be giving those PBs a shake very soon.

Gronk said...

Yeah that was a great result mate. Great to see that your patience and hard work has paid off. See you Saturday hopefully. :)

Tesso said...

Gees Flakey, that's fantastic!!!! Wow, you are almost back to peak fitness. That old PB won't last for too long at this rate.

Its very heartening to know that somebody can come back from injury so strongly. You give me hope!

miners said...

Fantastic run mate - looks like we'll be keeping each other company for some runs coming up soon (eep!)