Good on you Claire!

Life is indeed very good!! 

Pat when you sent that email yesterday reminding us all about the TT I groaned and got nervous...then promptly put it out of my mind. 

This morning I was all fired up and wanted to run really hard, though after the warm up I felt like crap and dropped my expected ETA from 12:15 to 12:30.

Then you went and decided to give us an inspiring insight into your own experiences and I took it all onboard thinking it sounded like elitist crap but thought I'd give it a go anyhow. 

With such a large group I followed your advice and went out in a relaxed but steady manner. This meant following people I would normally be in front of for the first 500m. I was then able to put some more effort whilst still being somewhat relaxed for the second km and I found myself making ground which was very suprising and exhilirating. 

The final km I cannot say there was any relaxment about it whatsoever. I hurt and my legs were tiring. The most amazing thing happened though, when I turned around to do the last km I passed a lot of people who were running the end of their 2nd km. They all took the breath to say 'Go Clairie' and it was most inspiring. It is certainly a great group of people we run with isn't it?? 

To then get cheered in for the final 50m and have Jodi running alongside spurring me on was just what I needed to get over the line and get a most-appreciated PB. 

I got what I wanted for Christmas :) 

Thanks Pat 

PS. Who would have thought that after more than 14 months in your group I would still be getting PBs and seeing improvements. What would I do without the PCRG?