So, today I went for a loop of Flaxley in the sunshine. My legs felt pretty good, despite a full-on Bike session yesterday. I felt so good, I decided to change route and take another crack at the 'Blaisdon Hill Climb from Velthouse' segment. A couple of weeks ago I missed out on setting a PB (from 2013) by just 1s. At the time, I wasn't trying for a fast time, just to run it without stopping. To go so close was a surprise.
Today, as I approached the climb, I started to feel more fatigued and less confident but went for it anyway. During the climb I was really struggling, feeling slow but I kept grinding. If I was going to run a slower time, I sure wasn't going to be beaten to a walk. In that aspect, at least, I succeeded. I looked at my watch to see 11s down on the segment time. I wasn't too disappointed (I was really). I really thought I had a better time in me today. Ho hum and on I went to complete the run.
It was only later, when I looked at the segment on Strava, that I realised the 11s down, was down on the KoM not my PB. I actually destroyed my PB by 49s, improving from 4:47 to 3:58 and I'm now only those 11s off the outright 3:47 KoM, in third spot.
Those few weeks ago, when I managed to run the entire climb without a breaking into a walk for the first time since circa 2016, I'd pretty much ruled it out as a potential KoM target, being 60+ seconds off but now it's very much game on...
