Sunday - race 4 research 5km

This race started at 9am. I managed to get about 5km warmup done & felt pretty good.
There were over 3100 in this & I was near the front but not quite at the very front. Had to run around all the little kids at the start. This course is flat for about 2.5km then goes up hill for about 1km then downhill again.
After about 1.5km I'd caught up to the top 10 which had the leading female in the pace. There were 4 other runners in front of us. I broke away from that pace & was running with Colin Goodenough for about another km then he got away on me on the hill. Still I wasn't too far behind & found myself in 6th place. I held this for the rest of the run. I finshed in 18:27. This was 5sec off my PB for this race that I did in 2007. I found out that it's 5.2km not 5km so that makes it even better!
After the race I went for a 13km easy run along the foreshore