Cangratulations Iain on an awesome performance. The time you ran just shows the amount of work you have put in lately. Going by this improvement we should be seeing a sub 1:35 at Noosa.
My race was a tough one. I just hadn't put enough work in, in the weeks leading up to the race. 40km's over 4 weeks just won't do it. Oh well, Sometimes you have to concetrate on work and resting to get over these head colds. I'm still glad that I went in it and glad that I finished in a similar time to last year. Gives me a little more drive to prepare better for the next one.
Iain and I ran together for the first 15-16km's. We were reeling off very consistent 5mins/Km's and passed the 15km mark dead on 75mins. It was about there that I ran out of legs and blew out to 5:20min/km's and Iain just powered on to run home with 4:40's. Great effort.
On a personal note, congratulation also to my wife, Andrea, who ran her first 10km race. She was hoping to break 60 mins and went on to finish in 54:40 (gun time). Unfortunately the official results for the 10km don't have correct nett times, but her watch time was 52:55mins which was a great result. She was over the moon with that.
Ryan