Weirdly, although I have been running for over 8 years now, and have clocked well over 15 000km, over 2600km just this year so far, I have never done a time trial.
Most clubs have them, and even though I have finally joined a club this year I still hadn't actually attended a time trial.
Sure the Greepoint Park Runs I have been doing are like a time trial in format, and I have even done quite well in them and finished as first lady 3 times now!
Anyway the point is I somehow had never got around to or been able to get to an official club time trial until this week, when I joined Candyce and Co. for the Celtic Harriers Time Trial at the Rondebosch Common on Wednesday. It was chilly and VERY windy making it a pretty grueling 5km facing into the blasting North-Wester most of the time.
I managed to finish in a reasonably respectable but not PB of 23:21. Finishing 5th of the 10 women who took part and ahead of 4 of the 22 men. Not too shabby...
Candyce of course was first lady with only 2 men ahead of her. She is FAST!
Results here
| 5km - WOMEN | |||
| Name | Surname | Time | |
| 1 | Candyce | Hall | 19:32 |
| 2 | Claire | le Manache | 20:42 |
| 3 | Melody | Fynn | 21:20 |
| 4 | Nothando | Mungwe | 21:40 |
| 5 | Jane | Fraser | 23:21 |
| 6 | Kari | Longman | 23:58 |
| 7 | Andrea | Orchard | 27:23 |
| 8 | Mandi | Cairns | 27:27 |
| 9 | Sandiswa | Ndlebe | 30:16 |
| 10 | Joanne | van der Valk | 30:20 |
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