Sat in Chilly Canberra. Bush capital 10k

Had a bit of a sleep in until 8am. Walked outside & the car was all iced up. You know it's cold when you leave a bottle of water in the car overnight & it iced up! Well much warmwer inside. After some toast & coffee for breakfast we made our way down to Woden to the runners shop. Charlie hasen't been in that one before so we had a bit of a chat to Brian Wenn then made our way to the race.
Our race got started at 1pm. Ran the first 2km of the course out & back as a warmup & that first 2km is pretty much all up hill.
There wern't too many in the 10k & Charlie took off in front. I caught up to him after about 300m then ran a steady pace up the hill. I was leading untill about 1.5k then the leading female caught me. She just kept powering along. Angela Bateup was her name. She was a World long distance mountain running medallist so to get beaten by her was all good! After the 2k mark it's levels off but has rolling hills all through there. It was an out & back race so the last 2km were the only easy bits & even then you couldn't go nut's down the hill as it was quite rough ground.
I did manage to beat Vanessa Haverd who came in about 30sec behind me. She won the 6 foot track this yr in 3:57. So second overall & finshed first male in 40:45 on a very tough trail course.
Ran 2k as a warmdown & on my way back I saw & ran with Kim Cook who was finishing the 60km. He did that in 5:41