It was two years ago that I last ran the 10K in the Milton Keynes Festival of Running. The 15th March 2020 was days before the full lockdown. Two years on and my times are distinctly slower, a minute and a half longer than 2020. This year I ran the 10K in 1 Hour 1 Minute and 10 Seconds, hence the title above. However, there were only two of us over 75 running, the other man was last! And there were only five men over 70 of whom I was third. I was 331st overall of 575 men and women, so being in the top two thirds is fine. However, my Age Grade was down from two years ago at 64.44 as against 65.97.
There was no way I could run at that previous pace of 9.27 minutes per mile. But I was so pleased with this year's 9.49. I knew I had to gain pace in the first half which has some gradual downhill sections and at the 5K I was there at 9.25 pace. It was obviously over 10 minutes per mile for the second half and it was quite hard on the uphill bits.
Looking at my results for all the MK 10K's over the years, I found these:
2014 56.05
2016 58.45
2018 56.48
2020 58.46
2022 1.01.10
This year the number of runners was well down at 575. Two years ago it was 919 and even then quite a few did not run with the advent of Covid. There were 1321 in 2018!
It made all the difference with Alison coming with me. The day was fine and 10 degrees, but quite windy Afterwards we had tea and cake in John Lewis. It was great to see Nicky and Michael from parkrun at the finish.
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