I did the EMC BHAA 5K last night, this was my first race all year and it was great.

I had no idea what pace to run at, but I lined up near the front and decided to stay below 7 min mile pace.

I completed the 5k in 20:44 and I’m very happy with the time. I averaged 6:39 pace for the run, and I finished strong – in fact I feel I could have pushed it a bit more.

My splits:

Mile 1 = 6:34
Mile 2 = 6:43
Mile 3 = 6:52

I know I was getting slower, but also the last mile has a lot of hill – so it doesn’t reflect the race.

I felt really good at the half way mark, and I actually started to pass people at that stage. the road was very narrow, so I was weaving around people (they were in my way) at one point with about 1/2 mile to go I actually went to the other side of the road to get around people.

Looking at my running in pictures, it looks like I didn’t do too much heel striking also 🙂