WORDS: ELIZABETH HUFTON
When you’re new to running, the thought of carrying your body around 10K is pretty daunting. Fast forward a few years and it’s the kind of distance you might knock out for a Monday morning recovery run – or, for some of us, it becomes our race nemesis.
Running a fast 10K race is a pretty brutal business: it’s long enough to require seriously spot-on pacing but short enough to force you to push your heart, lungs and legs to their limits. But it’s a really satisfying race distance to target, too, with its neat number of kilometre splits making pacing a doddle (mentally, at least). What’s more, if you can focus on building speed over this relatively short distance in the summer, you’ll be in a great position to try for a marathon PB this autumn. So what does it take to break the magic 40-minute barrier and be one of the first women across the line at a 10K?
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