Thanks all who sponsored me – my 10k time was 52:17, a new personal best and a time I am very happy with. My company are matching the donations of any employees who sponsored me so it looks like my total will be about £1400 once all the monies are in! Not bad.
However I may have pushed it a bit hard considering I was wearing my Vibram Five Fingers – my foot has been killing me this week - I think I pulled a ligament on my final sprint over the line. It’s a bit better today but it means I’ve been off the exercise since Sunday. Hopefully I can do something light tomorrow.
Next time I do a race it will be in proper shoes – the VFFs are good for slow training runs, and I have been slowly building up the mileage I can do in them, but in a race you really push yourself… and clearly I pushed too far. I was running for most of the race at an 8:20 min/mile pace (for the first few minutes when I was struggling to find space to run in I was doing more like 7:30 and my split for mile 1 was 8 minutes). My fastest practise runs have been around the 9 minute/mile mark so as you can see race day sped me up a lot!
As the race was quite near my flat (actually on my normal running route), I ran there and jogged/limped back – this means I didn’t take a camera or phone with me. Still waiting for the official photos to go online so I can post em – I know they will because I saw several cameras pointed at me on the way around 
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