Mary McCarthy

I'd been training all week.

I was like, I'm just going to run it.

Like I want to do something in December that's like, I hadn't got any races planned.

I was like, I'm just going to do a 5k PPC.

Like I was obviously in pretty good shape.

I was like, I'm going to see what I can do.

We set out at a three minute K. And he was like, come on.

I was like, I'm sprinting.

Like I'm sprinting.

And then I just genuinely held on for my dear life.

I think the Ks in general were actually not, the splits weren't actually a crazy difference.

But the first, like, 200 metres was, like, a three-minute pace.

And I was like, we don't need to do this.

And also, like, the way he paced me, I keep saying, I was like, next time you pace me, you know, like, the whole point of pacing is that you're, like, you're on someone's shoulder.

So you're kind of, like, gaining, the fact that you're gaining, the fact that you're, like, on their tail.

He was just five metres ahead the whole time.

I was like, I probably would have run so much quicker if you'd actually, like, been there on me.

I just got asked if I wanted to do Saucony 10K in, like, six weeks, and I was like... The idea of, like, standing on a start line and, like, aiming to do, like, sub-36 minutes for a 10K in six weeks, I was like...

Yeah.

Well, no.