Never made it to the track because they closed it when I was free.
Anyway onto today, end of a tiring week and Dorney 20 miler tomorrow couldn’t decide parkrun was sensible, went for it anyway. Jog there is just under 4k which is a nice warmup.
Start happens and some guy belts off about 3.30 pace before slowing massively leaving me leading for the first km. Someone eases past me and I tried to stay with him but he put 10m on me and stayed there. Overtaken at 3km leaving me in 3rd and same thing, they’re both staying just ahead but I couldn’t seem to make any progress
Then 4th place runs up onto my shoulder, dammit, I’m not being overtaken again so managed to hold her there for a bit and then push on. Didn’t look at my watch once.
3rd in 20.04 and a 17 second PB. Trying to work out, if I’d known sub 20 was so close, could I have found 4 seconds but I think the answer today is no.
Edit: just checked splits and I’m not sure a 3.44 first km is the right way to pace this but today it worked 
