Birchwood 10k

Race: Birchwood 10k (Warrington)
Time/Position: 37.49 (27th from 900 [3rd V45])
My slowest 10k time for nine years. I wouldn't normally have done this, as I don't normally make the transition from mountain to road until much later in the year, but it goes past my workplace on the Warrington campus and could obviously be combined with an IKEA trip for the family. I expected to suffer a little bit, but certainly didn't anticipate such a bad race. Felt awful for the last 5k and completely fell to pieces after a decent first 5k (17.30 for the first 5k, over 20 minutes for the second 5k!). A good event though: well organised and probably quite a fast course if you have the legs, with just a few motorway bridges to negotiate.