Confidence Boost...

After Sunday's disaster with the beef-burger in the belly run, I really needed a decent run this morning to assure myself that the last 5 months of effort weren't going to be wasted come City to Surf.

So I was pleased with a total of 7km in 36:07 which broke down like this:

• 1st km in 5:11
• 2nd km in 5:09
• 3rd km in 4:57
• 4th km in 4:35
• 5th km in 5:09
• 6th km in 5:21
• 7th km in 5:40

The course is overall down-hill with the 4th km dropping 50m - hence the quick split. The 2nd and 3rd kms were pleasing though as it's basically flat.

According to my race time calculator that gives me a 1:15:18 City-to-Surf, which is a bit below my target and as I've said before, there are the crowds and Heartbreak Hill to add into the equation. I'm hoping that the adrenalin on the day plus the last 3km being basically down-hill and the run into the finish should help me to creep under my 75 minute target!

I'm going to try to fit in a longer run (have I said that before) on Wednesday evening, so I can get 2 long runs in before the big day.