Lasswade 10

My holiday in Glen Coe is over and I'm back with a vengeance with the Lasswade 10. A 10 mile race through the beautiful Lothian country side. Well it was beautiful most of the time. Not the bit past the land fill :-(.

Our route started in Rosewell, just south of Edinburgh. By mile 2 we were near the bottom of Rosslyn Glen, home of Rosslyn Chapel (Yup the one out of the Da Vinci Code). By mile 6 we had finished climbing out of the Glen and it was mostly down hill to the finish.

Here is the elevation plan.

I had a good race, I'm really pleased. My target was to keep an eye on my pace. Back in November I did Buchlyvie Half Marathon and totally bonked towards the end. This time I wanted to finish running.

I set myself the target of 10 min miles. If I had finished in 1:40:00 I would have been happy. The first couple of splits were about 9:20 which I was quite happy with. My third mile was 10 min but that was the steep section out of the Glen. After that I didn't quite record my times other that it was about 9:30. At 6 miles I felt good and managed to pick up the pace. At 8 miles I was on 1:14:00. I had an outside chance of getting in at 1:30! I picked up the pace again. At 9 miles I was on 1:23:00. I was saying to myself 'Dig in, you can do it, it is supposed to hurt now, dig in'.

My unofficial finishing time?

1:31:09

I'm totally stoked. 9 minutes quicker than my plan and an 8min mile sprint to the finish!!!!!!

Wooo hooo, I'm back.