One PB, nearly two...

and not just W40 ones either!

first up was the 3000m...Jodie was also running her first track event as a time trial for her next half marathon - she'll be doing two more before 10 January...it was much warmer than last week and I think windier in the back straight (although I could have been imagining the wind!)

I settled into a good pace early and realised at the 1k mark that I might break 13:00...tried to push through the next k then finish strong...tried to peg back SG in the last lap but he put in a little spurt at the end to beat me...

12:54.55, a PB by 0.24 of a second....Jodie finished with 17:01.91, not bad for a first effort and she'll be better prepared for her next attempt...

splits: 0:50, 1:41, 1:43, 1:44, 1:47, 1:48, 1:47, 1:35
rough 1k splits: 4:14, 4:18, 4:23

there was a big gap to the 7 Lap Spiral so I ran with "Team Blue" in the 4 x 800m...Brett M (2:44), Nick B (3:32), me (3:11) and Ken E (3:17) combined for 12:44

started off Group 41 (9:50) in the Spiral with Ken E and Angel M and a whole posse off 42 including SG, Gary and Brett...

started off hard and then tried to maintain it...Gary passed me as did SG...Ken E pulled ahead...I managed to reel in Ken E on the last lap but in a replay of the 3000m finish I couldn't quite catch SG in finishing 15th...12:57 by my watch which is only a second off my PB set almost exactly a year ago...

temperature at 6pm: 25.1
temperature at 8pm: 17.9