Parkrun pb and treachery

So having not run since the marathon, I felt surprisingly good pretty quickly, especially after going for a bike ride on Thursday evening. I decided to do the parkrun to turn my legs over, but wasn't going to push it too hard if my legs protested. I put myself far too far bak in the field, which meant when the race started I just got stuck. This easily lost me 10-15 seconds, and I was overtaking people all the way around. People have complained that the course was hilly, but in fact the first hill didn't come until halfway, and it wasn't too bad at all; I overtook a few people here, and quickly you get the relief of going downhill again and still I managed to continue overtaking around 2 miles in it was feeling a bit hard, and I wondered whether it was worth slowing, but really there was no need to. I kept pushing. On the final lap around the castle I saw one of the girls from one of the local clubs and I knew I could catch her, I over took and started winding up for the finish, I was going faster and faster, I had it, then in the last 50m she came whizzing past me! Clearly had a considerably stronger kick finish than I have! My finish position was 40 out of 133. I got a new Parkrun pb of 24:19. I was 7th woman overalls and first in my age category SW25-29. Very happy with that- hope I could get a top 3 finish one day. Pretty sure all the women ahead of me were club runners.

After a few hours rest, I was traitorous to running and went on my first long bike ride in training for the ride London-Surrey 100. 38 miles, mainly in Suffolk. Was absolutely beautiful, but compared to running, I get absolutely freezing whilst cycling. Still I do think its good recovery and training for my next marathon campaign...