Great Run Bristol 10k

Yesterday I took part in my third Great Run Bristol 10k.

I do like this race as I prefer to run on the flat, rather than the hills, and this route is certainly flat. There are only two small hills, the first at about a half mile in, and the second less than a mile from the finish.

And this year it was great to run with my fellow CRC mates, Sam Howells, her daughter Alice, and Fern Powell. My thanks go to them for making this a great morning out. And Alice is a star in the making, completing the course with a sub 50 minute time. Usually there are a few runners from my work place, however I was the only one from the company taking part this year.

I've been running really well over the last few weeks, getting a PB at the 5k Riverfront Parkrun in a time of 0:26:35, a new course PB at the Tredegar Park Parkrun, and running the Leisure League race last Tuesday at Bryn Bach Park, Tredegar in 0:51:15 for a distance of 5.93 miles. With that last result I knew I had it in me to complete the Bristol 10k in a new 10k PB time of around 53 minutes. My previous PB was gained at the hilly Caerphilly 10k race in 2015 with a time of 0:55:56.

Anyway, I ran with a GoPro Hero 4 Session camera attached to my chest, which worked well except that my swinging hands were in shot all the time, so maybe I'll purchase a shoulder mount and see how that works. In a little while I'll upgrade this camera to the new Hero 5 Session which has digital stabilisation, so the video footage should bounce around less.

So here is the video.

So my running plans for this week are to do the usual club run on Tuesday night, which is the Reservoir Run, which is a hilly route, but then they are all hilly routes. You can't get away from them in our part of Wales.

Then on Thursday the club hosts a session with the local C25K ( couch to 5k) group, for new runners to get them running up to 5k distance, so I shall assist with that if I can get there in time, and then follow that with the club speed session.

Instead of running the 5k Parkrun on Saturday morning, I'm planning to do a longer run, maybe around 10 miles along the canal from Newport to Cwmbran and back, as I need to increase my distance in preparation for the half marathons I've registered for. More about those in a later post.

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Until next time, happy running fellow plodders.

Steve