Paula Radcliffe warmed up for next weekend’s New York City Marathon with a fine performance and new British Record at the 10 mile BUPA Great South Run.
Radcliffe, competing for the first time since her disappointment at the Beijing Olympics, won in 51 minutes 11 seconds; 30 seconds faster than the 17 year old record held by Jill Boltz.
Actually, at one point, the 34-year-old looked set to break the world record, but narrowly missed out by 21 seconds.
Now Paula will attempt to win the title for the third time in her career and judging by her post-race comments, she’s pretty hopeful of a good showing:
Sometimes, at the end of a race, you feel really sick when you are warming down. I don’t feel like that today, I can run a decent time and still come away feeling that there is more in the tank. I eased down for this race and I’ll ease down more for New York, so, hopefully, I’ll be even fresher then.
go paula
Nice run after the Olympic disappointment – hope she has a great run in NYC
It seems after the disappointment of Beijing Olympics Paula is back to her best. I can’t wait to watch sunday’s race
Wow, very exciting stuff!