XT Wings Challenge
Posted by: Richard in Personal, Running, Sport, UK, tags: challenge, Running, xt wingsI previously posted that I’d been invited to take part in the XT Wings Challenge. There’s a press release about the new shoe, and the whole project. My details now seem to be on this site: the challenge widget is in the right sidebar, which you’re welcome to click on.
My challenge is as originally mentioned – to go sub-45 minutes (perhaps even 44 minutes) on the Men’s Health Forum Scotland 10k on Fathers day on the 15th June. This will be a year after my first real race (write-up here), when I came in at 53:56 minutes (I’d been aiming for the hour). The course is right through my local park, which I know very well, and is a decent, flat(ish) course.
There are 20 other bloggers involved in this project/promotion/campaign, and from a brief scan over them, there seem to be a great selection of challenges. Good too to discover a few other running weblogs too. Here’s the complete list, for some weblogger link love:
- Eric LANTZ (FRANCE)
- Bruno BOUGAULT (FRANCE)
- Emmanuel FAIVRE (FRANCE)
- Nicolas BARD (FRANCE)
- Guillaume FRAT (FRANCE)
- Gerd DIETRICH-ROSENBROCK (GERMANY)
- Jessica JUNKER (GERMANY)
- Jorg SCHNEIDER (GERMANY)
- Chritoph WITTE (GERMANY)
- Andreas MEIER (GERMANY)
- Jonathan WYATT (UNITED KINGDOM)
- Jonathan SENIOR (UNITED KINGDOM)
- Phil BREWER (UNITED KINGDOM)
- Angela WOLFF (UNITED KINGDOM)
- Richard LEYTON (UNITED KINGDOM) (yay me)
- Jeffrey SMITH (USA)
- Josh MORPHEW (USA)
- Jessica DELINE (USA)
- Olga WARLAMOVA (USA)
- Cathy WHITE (UNITED KINGDOM)
I’m yet to receive any gear, so I’ll be posting more about it as and when I get it. Rest assured I intend to be honest – I’ve not signed anything and am under no obligation to say anything in particular, other than to give it a go and see how I do.
My running club training session on Wednesday featured a 3k time trial through the park, which I managed in 12:21 (over 2.83km by my Garmin’s estimation), which gives me a pace of 04:22. Have to say, I didn’t feel too perky (I’ve not been running enough for the last few weeks), so the Fetch prediction from that time, of 47 minutes for a 10k, shows I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hi Richard,
you can beat your PB !
Good Luck
Manu
April 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hello Richard… I wish you all the best for your challenge… I’ll train the next 4 weeks to go for mine early june… Cheers
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Hi Richard,
best wishes for your Challenge from Germany!
Gerd
May 30th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Hi Richard, hope all is going well. I would guess that you are into the final stages of training before a taper.
Just avoid anyone with a summer cold…
June 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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