Video footage of my 10Km finish...

**savage** · 17-10-2005, 06:27 PM

I took part in a 10km race around Victoria Park yesterday ( Sunday 16th of Oct ). In total there were 32,000 runners spread across 3 parks, namely Hyde Park, Victoria Park and Battersea Park.

Here is the video of me crossing the finished line.
When watching the video, I'm the guy who you see sprinting across the line around the 9-10 second mark of the video. I just passed 4 people ( 3 men and one women who is directly behind me when I cross the line ) to cross the line in a time of 52 minutes and 28 seconds.

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Out of the 32,000 people that took part, I came 7198, which makes it the first quarter. My plan was to finish in under an hour, so I am very pleased with the result. There is still room for improvement so I will be working on that over the coming months.

Tomorrow I am sending off the entry form for the London Marathon, which will be held on April 23rd 2006, but plan to run in at least 1 half marathon in Jan/Feb in preparation for the London Marathon.

Just so you know what I have been doing with most of my spare time recently.

**savage** · 17-10-2005, 06:36 PM

Btw, if you need inspiration have alook at the video below...

Julis Moss had just completed a 3.8km swim, 180km cycle and was leading the womens race in the closing stages of the Marathon ( 42.2Km ) when her body basically told her to stop. Obviously her mind had other ideas.

She was beaten withing only meters from the finish line. She had to finish the race crawling across the finish line.

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/iron...mossABCtag.wvx

I remember watching this back in 1982 when it happened and vowed to one day complete an Ironman.

**Traveler** · 17-10-2005, 07:06 PM

Good job! And good luck with your training.

**Clootie** · 17-10-2005, 07:36 PM

Great!
Are you really ready finish marathon!?

**savage** · 17-10-2005, 07:48 PM

I'm not ready right now, but I have 6 months to prepare, so assuming I don't get sick or injured it should be doable.

**tux** · 17-10-2005, 08:45 PM

well done! unfortunatly my exercise is running from my computer to the kitchen to get something to eat

**JSoftware** · 18-10-2005, 08:09 AM

hehe nice job that was indeed a nice time! i did run a 6,4 km race 2 months ago. i made it to finish it in 36 minutes. that was kind of a silly bad time but i've never been able to run and at the finish of this run i was on the egde of dieing or coughing my lungs up

**technomage** · 20-10-2005, 05:19 PM

well done dom

**MikeS** · 20-10-2005, 09:27 PM

Awesome to see some other runners around here Savage. I run Cross Country(5K) at my school and absolutely love it. One of these days I'd love to do a big 5K or 10K, or even marathon like that.

Keep at it, and let us know your times.

Personal bests:
5K Cross Country: 20:01
5K Road Race: 19:35

Hoping to break 19 in a race this Saturday.

**savage** · 21-10-2005, 09:02 AM

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.