Posts Tagged “challenge”

25 04 2008

XT Wings Challenge

Posted by: Richard in Personal, Running, Sport, UK, tags: , ,

I 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:

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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