I’ve just realised that this morning’s race is my first 10 mile race ever… so an automatic PB for me!! Last year my crappy car let me down and sat in the driveway, forcing me to miss the race (secretly I wasn’t too upset, 10 miles is a long way).<\/p>\n
I ran the 10 miles in 1:34:52, to be exact, and enjoyed it immensely even when I started to fade in the last mile (but I always do!) but a funny thing happened during that last mile that gave me the kick I needed… As we were rounding a corner in a wooded part of the run we heard a distant loud speaker playing a familiar tune but we couldn’t quite figure out what it was. It as a slow tempo, downbeat song and frankly the last thing I’d choose to spur on tired legs on for the last mile. As we ran closer to the loud speaker the sound became clearer but we still couldn’t quite work out that the song was until the chorus came around… “…Bright Eyes… burning like fire…” We fell about the place laughing, the song they picked was from Watership Down, a film about a bunch a rabbits risking life and limb to get across busy roads with many casualties along the way. That choice was either a bad mistake or the result of a very dark sense of humour!<\/p>\n