Delighted that I ran over 40 minutes in 2007

I feel obliged to support the 10,000 metre track race tonight as I campaigned to have it re-instated a few years ago and have run most of those on offer in the last 21 years. But I haven't raced for two months and there is nothing in my training to suggest I will even get close to the time I did then on the NSC roadway.

So I was resigned to running a personal worst. I may still do but at least I have a chance of avoiding it. I had an awful race in 2007 at the time I (later realised) was suffering from exercise induce asthma. It was only two years earlier that I won the event and a year later, six weeks into my morning training regime, I got back under 36 minutes. Seems a long time ago now.

Here are my times since 2005:

2005 - 35.11
2006 - 37.19.9
2007 - 40.02.8
2008 - 35.51.0
2009 - did not enter
2010 - 36.12.0
2011 - 38.50.7
2012 - 37.53.4

I hope that as many people as possible will come and beat me tonight as I don't want to be trudging around on my own!