5k delight

It's been 5k season for me over the last couple of months, a few 5k races, and the parkruns have seen me get some pretty decent times, but nothing close to my personal best.  So, sub 22 is the main goal for today's 5k effort at the Great North 5k, on the Newcastle & Gateshead quaysides.

I'm not sure that having my 'Sunday' name on it will help me run any quicker, but I'm quite looking forward to the fact that it's got chip timing, and that the course looks pretty fast, despite a couple of ups & downs.

According to the powerof10 I'm not doing too badly in the UK rankings for vet 40, but I'd like to just dip under the 22 minute mark for my own sanity, and the fact that I know I can do it, and haven't yet this year is a bit annoying.

 I've ran 22 5ks/5000m this year, so hopefully by the end of the year I should have cracked it!

Event	Time	Position	L40		Date
5KMT	22:15	31	1	Riverside parkrun 5K Event 3	28-Jul-12
5KMT	22:15	24		Riverside parkrun 5K Event 5	11-Aug-12
5K	22:21	183	3	Sunderland 5K	18-Jul-12
5KMT	22:30	25	1	Riverside parkrun 5K Event 8	01-Sep-12
5000	22:48.3	7		North East Veterans' Pentathlon Championships (inc NECAA Pentathlon)	08-Sep-12
5KMT	22:59	66		Riverside parkrun 5K Event 1	14-Jul-12
5KMT	23:02	66	4	Watergate 5K (Inc NE Veterans' Champs)	30-Aug-12
5K	23:03	125	2	Wallsend Harriers Terry O'Gara Memorial 5K	22-Apr-12
5KNAD	23:23	134		Newcastle parkrun 5K Event 107	04-Feb-12
5KNAD	23:23	30	1	Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 10	28-Apr-12
5KMT	23:24	29	1	Riverside parkrun 5K Event 6	18-Aug-12
5KNAD	23:28	16	1	Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 3	03-Mar-12
5KMT	23:29	70		Whitley Bay parkrun 5K Event 1	16-Jun-12
5KNAD	23:30	21	1	Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 20	07-Jul-12
5KNAD	23:55	129		Newcastle parkrun 5K Event 103	07-Jan-12
5KNAD	23:58	17	1	Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 14	26-May-12
5KNAD	24:01:00	16	1	Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 16	09-Jun-12
5KNAD	24:14:00	26	1	Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 4	10-Mar-12
5KNAD	24:39:00	19		Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 7	31-Mar-12
5KMT	25:03:00	76		Sedgefield parkrun 5K Event 1	17-Mar-12
5KNAD	27:51:00	54		Gateshead parkrun 5K Event 1	18-Feb-12

I know I didn't manage to get under 22 mins last year either, but I was injured for a good portion of it, so hopefully it'll happen today, with a favourable tailwind in the last mile please!

Best of luck to everyone running, and of course to everyone doing the North Run tomorrow :D