On Sunday night I ran in my first competitive race in over a year. It was the Nike RunLondon 10km race. It was a night run around the south eastern suburbs of London. We also ran across the Tower bridge and back.
I had done little training for the race as I had a sore hamstring from the flag football the other week. So I was happy with the time of 47 min, 38 secs. I did a 5 km split of 23 mins 19 secs. Out of the 30,000 runner I was placed 4,077th.
It felt good to be running and the cool night conditions of London (approx 7 degrees celcius) were very pleasant to run in once I warmed up a bit.
That is the good news.
The bad news is the organisation. It was pretty poor. If London seriously wants to host the Olympics in 2012, they have to be able to do a much better job. The start of the race was delayed 15 mins because with 10 minutes to go before the official start time they still hadn't secured some of the roads we were to run on.
Runners were also sent in all directions to get to the start and they were still putting barriers into place at the start area 30 minutes prior to the start.
At the finish we stopped at the finish line as they funneled the runner into a narrow hairpin 10 metres after the finish line.
Natalie was also entered to run in the event but late last week came down with a cold and was still not 100 per cent on Sunday so we agreed it would be foolish for her to make herself worse by running. She however rugged up and did a great job of cheering me on at the finish.
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