Owston Ferry 10k

Owston Ferry - has you in mind of local shops for local people and the League of Gentlemen ?

Well not so thankfully, but it was the next stop on the tour that is 'Team Newham' !

Initially, I didn't have anything planned for today, however, earlier in the week I came across a Facebook ad saying that places were available, so after some quickfire texting, me and Dave decided to enter and make it 10k no.3 !

The weather was a lot nicer than yesterday, and Owston ferry is situated in a very nice part of the world which is very scenic but also ideally very flat. We registered in a village hall/school and the start was held in a field just next door, with a lap of said field at the start of the race before heading out into the Lincolnshire countryside. 

At 10.30 everyone just started running, so I presumed correctly that we had started ! Our first lap of the field felt fast and when we exited I could see that we were running an 8.50 pace which was much quicker than we had done before which is not always a good thing. 

We ran parts, we recovered parts, and chatted at length around the course, all the while making sure that we kept our targets within reach, and also that we didn't slide to the very rear of the field as neither of us wanted to come last ! 

The first 5km were done in 38 minutes so I knew that we would be tight if we wanted to beat the 1.16 we did at Woodhall, and the second half of the race saw some good stretches being run, albeit broken up by some lengthy walks. During kilometre 8 we concentrated on winding in our target in front of us to make sure we got ahead of him for the last kilometre run in.

The last kilometre was reasonably quick and Dave again saved what looked like all of his energy for another strong finish aided and abetted by my nephews James and Thomas to cross the line in 1.17 and change. 

Next up for the gruesome twosome is Birmingham Super Sprint in July unless I can rope us into another outing before then !