Latrobe 15km

I wasn't sure about this race. Should I have a real crack at it? What time should I aim for? Should I treat it as a long run and add a few k's on at the end? Should I just take it easy?
When I decided to go for a 45km bike ride yesterday I confirmed that I would not being having a real crack at this race. I don't know why I felt like taking it easy, possibly because it's not a distance I race very often so I didn't know what to aim for and so didn't have any goals.

This morning I woke up and felt like I had already done the run. I just felt generally tired. I would see how it went.

I arrived at Latrobe and just wanted to get started. My dad took me so I couldn't wander around talking to people because I didn't want to make him too bored because he had to wait through a 15km race. After catching up with a few people on the start line we got started. I wanted to run at 4.10 pace (was feeling comfortable) but I knew I wouldn't be able to sustain it for 15km. The hills at the start of each lap were hard but it was entertaining seeing everyone in the dog leg. The rest of the race was really boring, just pounding the asphalt. I felt like I was coming last because there were so few people around.

My splits were:
4.26, 4.10, 4.28, 4.22, 4.06, 4.32, 4.30, 4.31, 4.22, 4.15, 4.35, 4.25, 4.34, 4.26, 4.09.
Not very consistent.

1km - 4.26
2km - 8.36
3km - 13:05 (this time last year that was a new PB)
4km - 17.27
5km - 21.34 (my PB is 21.07)
6km - 26.07 (my PB is 25.40)
7km - 30.37
8km - 35.08 (only 5 seconds off my PB!)
9km - 39.31
10km - 43.46
11km - 48.22
12km - 52.48
13km - 57.22
14km - 61.48
15km - 66.00

I reached the halfway point after 33 minutes so I actually ran 2 even halves, VERY unusual for me! Very surprising considering I was dying from the start.

I once again made the division 1 team which I thought is a bad thing for the health of the club but we actually came 4th!
I kinda wish I'd done the 5km as I reckon I would have been good for 3rd place in the U20s.

The next race is the Coliban relays and I can't believe I have to wait a whole month. We are going to have a great Div 1 team - probably me, Marissa, Penny, Fiona and Karen.