Tim Hortons Peachbud 10K Recap

My FIRST training has been going really well so I was anticipating an excellent race yesterday. I was running the Tim Hortons Peachbud 10K in Grimsby, Ontario for the second year in a row. I truly enjoyed it last year and its the race where I have my 10K PR. So I was hoping to get a new PR this year or atleast come very close to my time.

This is a 7:30pm race which I find I am thinking about the race all day and trying to not stress myself out during the day prior to the race. we got to the race site early beacuse I had to pick up my race kit. Last years race kit was dismal but they did add a few more items in this years kit, a good improvement:

THIS YEARS RACE KIT
LAST YEARS RACE KIT


The weather at home had turned greatly in the afternoon. The wind had really picked up and on the drive to Grimsby, which is 1.5 hours away, I was hoping they did not have the same wind. Well they did! I was really afraid that the wind would hold me back if it was frontal hitting wind.

They had a 1K and then a 5K start first and then the 10K started. Here I am waiting for the race to start with my cute cheerleader:

I am focusing and waiting patiently for the horn to sound:

Here is the starting line:

And there I am taking off:

And there I go:

And here I come towards the finish line. They had the finish line again on the grass which I really am not a fan of:

Look who was waiting for me:

DONE! It was not my best race by far. I did hit the front wind at the half way mark and a big highway overpass hill that slowed me down a bit but I was confident I could make up that time but with that frontal wind, forget it. I am really disappointed with my time but I did a bit of searching online and it looks like it was a slower race to most of the top runners so I guess it was meant to be.

So here are my stats:

Chip Time - 54:05 BLAH

Official Rank (out of 597 runners) - 285th

Gender Rank (out of 311) - 89th

Category rank (out of 65) - 20th

My splits:

1K - 7:44 (yup I was a bit quicker than I wanted....wanted to go out at 8:00 and keep it steady)

2K - 8:08 (looking good)

3K - 8:07 (feeling great)

4K - 8:30 (hill)

5K - 9:01 (the wind hit)

6K - 9:19 (more wind)

7K - 9:26 (even more wind)

8K - 9:16

9K - 8:46 (turned and wind was not head on)

10K - 8:13 (wasn't enough)

Overall Pace : 8:38 (via Garmin)

Still disappointed with this race but its done, lets move on. Next race is on Friday, Canada's Day!