April 3 - Nike Training Run
Headed down to Niketown for the final training run in the city. Purchased myself a pair of the new Nike Triax Structures, with a nice little discount.Met Emma, Beki, Tony, Rupert, Tim and Stu from the Ausrun forum down there. It's great seeing familiar faces at the different runs and training sessions, makes the atmosphere all the better.
Anyway, I was running with two friends, and one was very keen on doing the 10km slow pace as this would only be the third 10km run she has ever done. We talked her into koining the 10km medium group, as they generally run at about 5:30 pace and we could always drop off if required.
Well there was a cracking pace set early, poor Sal the run leader had no chance, and in no time at all the group was strung out over a fair distance. We stuck to a decent pace, thinking we were travelling at just over 5:00 pace. We didn't do the dogleg at the Tan, so ran about 9.8km, and came in at under 46 minutes. My friend did unbelievably well to be very strong at the end. I did the run very easily and could have headed off for another 10km straight away. It's amazing the fitness I have picked up over the past 8 weeks.
As an added bonus, Nike gave away snazzy running singlets to anyone that had been at more than one training session. Very happy about that!
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