It was a cold morning at the start line at -2C (-8 with windchill) I was wearing gloves and a beanie, my ICEBreaker Merino wool long sleeve hoodie, City Park Runners jersey, my Patagonia tights and my late dad's Brooks PureFlow V1 shoes that I bought for him a year before he passed away. I trained in them in 2015 hoping to do the TCM full that year but I got sick so I put them away and today was the day I decided to wear them for my test race.

The first 5km I did in 23:46 which is a PB for me