Lake Macquarie Half

I felt pretty good this morning and thought I may as well go out at a descent pace and just see what happens. So we get racing at 8am and I go through the first km in 3:50 and the 2nd in 3:47. I'm feeling pretty good for the first 5km and manage to do most of my km's under 4min the held 4min pace until 12km when all of a sudden the legs got heavy. Now I'm doing about 4:10-4:15km pace and hold that until I finish. Finished in about 86min30sec and I was pretty rapt with that. Normally I'd be bummed at a time like that but to only been back running for a couple of weeks after 5 weeks of no running with a stress fracture I think I did a great job.

Right now I have a sore left hamstring and very sore legs in general. That's the first hard road run I've done in a long long long time and it smashes your muscles much more than a trail race. Not saying a road race is harder or easier than a trail race it's just that they are both very different