Here I am writing about my last race for the 2011 season. Last weekend my family and I spent the weekend in the beautiful city of Victoria. I decided to register for the 8k race which is a awesome run right along the ocean for 4k out and back course. I arrived on Friday evening at the hotel and went straight to bed as I was fairly tired from the long car ride. The next morning we walked around town exploring but I tried to stay off my feet as much as possible and not give my little cousins too many piggy back rides. The morning of the race I did about a 2k warm up just to get the blood pumping. After warm up I was ready to rock and found myself at the start line amongst 2500 other participants. Once the race started I got off to a good pace at about a 4:00 km pace. I passed a lot of people in the first few kilometres. At about 3km I saw the pros coming back with Kyle Jones leading the pack. I came around the turnaround and headed back into town. In the last km I was feeling great and maintaining a high cadence when out of nowhere a 10 year old zoomed by me,,leaving me in his dust (what do parents feed their kids these days?) Anyways I put that behind me a continued to the finsh. My final time was 34:24 and I maintained a average pace of 4:18/km.
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