This approach, to just charge into the lead from the opening moments and stay there, is one that is more difficult than it sounds over 10 kilometres.

But it was a gamble that paid off for the Canberra product as he won while achieving a personal best time on the road of 28.29.5 to make it back-to-back titles in Burnie. 

He finished in front of fellow Canberra runner Jordan Gusman (28.39.9) and his training partner, King Island’s Stewart McSweyn (28.45.1).

“I’m very happy,” Robinson, 25, said moments after crossing the finishing line.

“I thought with the wind today, it was actually good compared to other years.

“I just thought then I would go hard from the start, and see who wanted to be tough and see who wanted to make this a fitness test.

“I had a 50 metre lead after a kilometre so I thought ‘it looks like I am doing this by myself’.”

He revealed it was only Sunday morning that he decided to go with this approach.

“I just went out there and ran the pace that I wanted to run.

“I was a bit worried that I would blow up, but luckily I was able to hold on.

“I thought about using these tactics last night. But when I woke up this morning and saw the wind, I thought it would be a good tactic to use.

“It is always a risky tactic, because the boys behind can work together to get you, but luckily I was able to hold on.”

He admitted it was ‘’kind of boring” being out on his own, and this may have ended up costing him the record, which was set by Darren Wilson in 1997 of 28.11.

“I had to keep checking back.

“I relaxed a little bit through the middle, and they tried to hunt me down,  and that probably cost me the record I reckon.”

“As I came over I saw 28.05 and thought ‘I probably could have got it’, but oh well.”

His time was around 40 seconds quicker than last year’s success.

“I am definitely fitter than what I was last year, and the wind this year was a lot better,’’ he said.

“Usually we have the last four or five kilometres into the wind, but this year we had 3-5, which helped so much.

“I wanted to come back and defend it, and I have won two road races in the last month, so I wanted to get a winning streak going and not lose this, so this means a lot.”