Wow Mike, that's a very very respectable 5K time! I used to do cross country many years ago. I only started training for this 10K about 2 months ago and messed up my training a little as I did not do any 10k training run. The most I managed was 7K and that was 3 days before the race. I think I can get my 10K time down to 40mins if I put in some quality training.

Actually this is my first 10km in about 13 years. Last race I did before this one was a Man Vs Horse race in the english country side back in 1992 and that was over 10 miles ( 16km ). Scariest thing was hearing the horse bearing down on you.

Anyway keep up the running, seems you are quite close to representing your country.