Cool, you were racing against Tim Grose, the guy responsible for PowerOf10, I love that site. I watch his YouTube videos, do you know if he recorded that race? Saying that, his track race footage seems to involve resting the camera on the ground, so isn’t the best
Ha yeah Tim’s a legend round these parts. He did indeed record the race.
Was pleased as well as featuring in the race itself, I also make a cheeky appearance in the 4x400 during his debrief: https://youtu.be/kc3MfqOKhvQ?t=653
I’d never heard about the head to head feature in Runbritain Rankings - he covers that in the video. Interesting feature.
Didn’t realise he was responsible for powerof10. Have also watched a number of his videos.
He was also randomly in my heat for one of my few attempts at a track event. It was right before my achilles decided it no longer liked running fast, when I was chasing a sub17. I did a 17:04 road race the week before and thought a track race with dragonfly spikes might be the answer. I blew up Didn’t even end up being a 5000m pb (even though it says it was - for some reason another event I did never got ratified on rbr/pof10)!
The wind had eased quite a bit and was mostly a cross wind but freezing cold straight off the North Sea which was pretty rough. Did my usual poet inspired first 1K, knew it was a bit sharp and was trying to slow down but got some time in the bank with a 3:47. Then managed to settle into 4:01 which was tough but manageable.
On the second lap there was a bit less shelter from other runners and I knew I was slowing but knew I had just over 4 minutes for the last K, got to about 300M to go and just tried to push as hard as I could manage and sneaked over in something like 19:53. Then sat on the floor hoping I’d live
Still a bit off where I was last year around this time but after a long injury, very little running focus and a hard fell race on Saturday I’m fairly pleased with it.
Just need to avoid being a doyle now and not risk injuring anything again.