2023 Burton 10k
A bit of a strange race this one, let me explain. I have been doing some training and arguably plenty of it in the last few months, albeit averaging 25% less volume than at my peak a few years ago. However, most of the training has been steady state stuff / endurance with no focus whatsoever on speed work. What sessions I have done have been well adrift of my capabilities at my peak in 2019. The figures do not lie. Nonetheless, I felt training had been going well enough in recent weeks alongside a gap in diary commitments allowing me to enter a road race for the first time in ages just to see where things are at, with zero expectation set. I had thought my last road race was pre-covid in 2020, but actually that is not true as I also did the Wheaton Aston 10k in December 2021. The Burton 10k is a race that I know well, having won it in 2017 (32.38) and 2019 (32.56). I was very borderline on entering the race and my original intention was to enter on the day depending on how I fel