Running race 40:31 [5] 10.0 km (4:03 / km)
shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS7
Had totally messed up the Oceania entries, not realizing that that today would be a public holiday. So I did the sri chinmoy 10k run instead. There was a pretty big field compared to last year with quite a few quality runners. It was billed to start at 9am but the rego was taking the organisers ages, so the start time kept getting put back and back. One dude spat the dummy and set off on his own after 15 minutes of waiting, finally after about half an hour we were set on our way. As I haven't done very much for about 6 weeks I didn't have high expectations, this run also seems to produce slow times. there was also a pretty strong headwind on the way out. I got to the turn in about 20 minutes the bloke on the drinks station asked what i wanted - said water then he gave me a cup and said - 'it's sports drink' took a sip then chucked the rest. Another drinks station at 2 k to go let me get some real water this time although I had to almost to go backwards to grab the cup from the person holding it. Slowed a bit near the end as there wasn't much to chase, had hoped to get under 40, but wasn't too unhappy with the time. Checked my time from last year, when I was even more out of training and it was 42.18.
