Great morning at the Biofreeze Irish Runner 5 mile in the Phoenix Park today. Well done to the Athletics Ireland team on a great event.
Warm and humid. It was a hot one
The plan - sub 35mins as my training indicated I was capable of running sub 35mins.
The plan - to suck it up and just suffer.
The result - 35.22.
Everything went to plan until 3.5k then the hill came and that’s where I need to learn to suffer better 
My brain amd legs were like - nope I’m not going to the point of full blown suffering. I’m just going to go a comfortable pace.
And then the hill was behind us and I was back near pace and back to the point of I’m under pressure but I’m finishing this out.
I need more of this feeling of being under pressure to make other races feel easier - but do races ever actually feel easier?
Before the race there were frequent trips to the bathroom. Lots of questioning of my life choices - why I keep choosing to put myself through this anxiety.
Clearly this pre race anxiety is never going to go
Onto the next one 
