A full race report will come soon, but the short story is I ran 11k on my own, followed by a longer than ideal break of around 30 minutes until the race started (was tricky timing everything) and then completed 21.1k at the Army Run. I did the half marathon in 2:14, my slowest half ever but perhaps the one of which I am most proud. I treated it as a long slow run, chose a pace and stuck with it throughout the whole run. In fact, I was so steady I kept thinking my Garmin wasn’t working because it stayed stuck on an average pace of 6:19 for 3/4 of the race. I only truly felt tired at the 17k point, and that feeling was gone within 500 metres! I know this sounds ridiculous but much of the race just felt relaxing. I guess taking away any finish time goals just allowed me to go along for the ride.

Lots more to talk about in the next post. For now though, if you feel the need to hear more about my running you can take a listen to this weekend’s iRun podcast where I talked to Mark Sutcliffe about training for my first marathon. You can find the September 21 interview here.