Spring Into Sprint Race #4
Westgate Park
Bruce 13:20
Brodie 13:23
Bryan 13:48
Another great fun event, and one of my few wins for the year. With my birthday yesterday, hopefully this is a good sign for the next year.
I felt better than any other sprint race this series. My hamstring tightness has settled down, and I enjoyed being able to run at full speed. I took advantage of this late in the course, when I pushed hard in the easier parts and gained a few seconds on Brodie in the splits.
I noticed that I lost 10 seconds (on a 20 second leg) to the fastest split on leg 3-4. I went left and lost no time. The right hand route could not have been much faster.
My run was not perfect. I hesitated on the way to 9. The track was now covered in large piles of mulch. I lost direction on the sprint leg 17 and was 20m too far left. I suspect that my left route choice to 20 was too slow due to the windy single track, and right would have been faster.