My aim was to treat it like a training run and run easily for a 3:45-4:00 finish. I took off at about 5min pace until I warmed up and got into a rythm of 5:20min/k's. After about 5k's, Roland came by and we ended up running the rest of the way together, which was great.
Wasn't expecting the hills from 6-12k which were long a gradual. The course did have a few long slow hills as well as some short surges to keep things interesting.
It was fantastic to run on a traffic free course and running along a major freeway was not as bad as I expected. That being said, I wouldn't want to run a hard marathon on this course by myself as it could get a bit monotonous.
The organisation was fantastic as there were plenty of volunteers (more than runners), regular drink stops and k markers painted on the ground (which were spot on from the GPS).
10k splits were 54:04, 53:02, 53:53, 54:06. Half splits were 1:53:52 and1:54:12, coming home in 3:48:20. (The Garmin said 42.2 exactly). It was interesting doing such even splits as alot of people that passed us at the start were behind us at the finish. Pleasing run as felt comfortable the whole way and not too sore today - bring on Sydney!
Good to meet a few CR's for the first or second time. And although it wasn't a hamburger, they had the best sausage and egg sandwiches I have ever tasted at the finish - Yum!
My only gripe is that we didn't get to do a lap of the athletic track to finish. I was looking forward to being Kerryn McAnne the whole way.
Splits:
5km - 26:00 - 158 (Avg HR)
10km - 28:01 - 155 (uphill section +42)
15km - 27:13 - 155
20km - 26:17 - 151 (downhill section -37)
25km - 26:58 - 154
30km - 26:54 - 157
35km - 27:09 - 159
40km - 26:55 - 159
Interstingly, the last 6 x 5km splits were less than 1 min different i.e. max 27:13 (5:27 pace), min 26:17 (5:19 pace).
Can't wait for next year and hopefully bigger crowds which will make it even better.
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