This year, unfortunately, Asthma UK couldn't afford to run their annual 10K at Dorney Lake - so we upped sticks a whole 24 hours to the Sparks F3 5 & 10K at the same venue.
Having run a half marathon the Sunday before, and having done my last marathon-training long run of 20miles on the Wednesday, I wasn't necessarily holding out great hopes for this 10K run, but I was really pleased to knock nearly half a minute off my 10K PB to come in at 53:44. Predictably, the race was really windy due to the exposure vista at Dorney, but other than that the weather held out nicely.
Organisation-wise, this race was a definite Could Do Better. The car parking marshall was little more than a human bollard, not providing any direction; the race marshalls all seemed to have sore hands and a lack of voice box; and the goody bag was disappointing to say the least, considering the £20 entry fee. The medal was nice, though, and the race director who did the pre-race briefing was energetic and enthusiastic enough to make up for his marshalls' inertia!
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