A friend roped Mrs Chris and me into the running the Shrewsbury 10k yesterday. Good course but there's a couple of short, stiff hills with this being the worst:
https://veloviewer.com/segments/7508006
300m, average 6.7% max 13.7%.
Chip time of 46:50, which frustratingly, was one second off my Strava 10k PB (though the actual race I clocked that in Strava lists as just over 10km, so it could be a PB depending on which time you take!). For some reason, I thought my PB was a fair bit faster than that. There was a problem inflating the finish line arch before the race, so it wasn't up and made it very difficult to judge the finish sprint. However, I know a PB was do-able, maybe by 20 to 30 seconds if I'd really hammered the last two KM. An (understandable) shame races are going to be hard to find over the coming months. Still, chance to build more fitness as yesterday's result was off only 9 runs this year (though I have clocked up 38 hours training on the bike to base fitness is good at the moment).
Would love to go sub 45 minutes for 10k, so need to give some thought on improving speed - my Parkrun PB is 23:27 so almost the same pace as 10k.