The last time I did a SAAC race recap was the Gary Rice Championship run.
We have had a race since then, but Tom was busy building fence posts so I didn’t have any pictures for a race recap, so I decided to skip the Steve Baird Handicap race recap.
I had also to planned to do a race recap for the Run For Russ fun run (you can read last years recap here), but it got cancelled due to lack of entries. Yeah I hear the “bummer”.
This week however we travelled out to Horsham for the Andrew Darnell Memorial Championship.
The course was 2 laps of a there and back course along the Wimmera River.
Being a championship run we all started off together.
This week was marked as a recovery week for my training (so no long run), so I was feeling good in my legs.
When the gun went off I was keeping a solid pace. At one point I thought, wow I could overtake Meggy. I didn’t though because she is a faster runner than me, and I knew if I did I’d be going way too fast and would burn out in the end.
I was feeling pretty good after the first lap, but I knew I still another half to get through. I concentrated on breathing, and making sure I kept my pace on check.
There were no fast Male runners this week, which was highly unusual, it was just me and Meggy out in front.
On the race home I was feeling it, I was breathing hard, trying to pump my arms faster to make me go faster, but I felt like I wasn’t building speed.
I crossed the finish line, and just had to kept moving forward to catch my breath.
Even though I had stopped my watch I hadn’t looked at my time for the .
Once I got my breath back I was shocked to discover I totally smashed my 5km pb by over 30 seconds!

Needless to say I was wrapped.
I ended up coming 3rd based on handicap, so I might be up for another win in a few weeks time.
To see the map you can view it here.
Rockstar! Great job!
Thanks Jen.
Woot Woot, Congrats my friend!!! 3rd is awesome, great job!!!!!
Thanks Kristy, lets see if I can get another win (i’m hoping the 10miler in a few weeks time).
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Phenomenal time. I am tired just thinking of that. Love the self-levitating shot. We all aim for that one! 🙂 Congratulations.
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