This Personal Best is a little bit of a cheat as the race starts at the top of the hill, you run down it and then is flat flat flat until you reach the end, check it out …
The only worry was going was the sun, because if you have been in a cave or outside of the UK for the last couple of weeks, you may not have known that the weather last weekend was FAB , wall to wall sunshine. Personally I love the sun and love running in the sun, it was great way to get your fill of vitamin D and to make sure you don’t spend you life either in the office or in the house.
The only worry was going was the sun, because if you have been in a cave or outside of the UK for the last couple of weeks, you may not have known that the weather last weekend was FAB , wall to wall sunshine. Personally I love the sun and love running in the sun, it was great way to get your fill of vitamin D and to make sure you don’t spend you life either in the office or in the house.
We flew up to Edinburgh on the Saturday, with the price of diesel and the time it takes to drive up to Edinburgh finding flights for just over £100 was a bargain really . The weather was lovely on the Saturday, HOT HOT HOT (wall to wall sunshine). Unfortunately I packed the wrong type of shoes for the trip, other than my trainers I had new shoes (bad idea) and flip flops (worse idea), after walking for an hour in both I had to put on my trainers to make sure I had no blisters . The other challenge was staying out of the pubs , it was so tempting to sit outside a pub with a little drinky or two and soak up the sun.
The great thing about the half marathon the race starts at 8am, however the bad thing about the half marathon is that it starts at 8am. There was ups and down, it was still quite cool and over cast, you had to be up for breakfast at 6am and out for 6:15 to get to the start. However we managed to do both in plenty of time and before we knew it, we
where at our respective starts; me in green and Sean in purple.
where at our respective starts; me in green and Sean in purple.
The run itself was lovely, not much support because of the early start but it was everything it says on the tim, flat and down hill. I had reassessed my goals the day before; I was just going to go out and enjoy the race, I didn’t want to set myself goal and then push it too hard in the sun. However I was feeling really good and my splits where great! I averaging 8:11 minute miles and even snook in a cheeky sub 8mins, then when I reach the 10 mile make I noted that I could get a sub 1:50 and thought well why not give it a whirl. Well it all paid off, I didn’t throw the hammer down, but I kept my pace up and finished in 1:48:03 a full 2mins of my previous time!
As I said earlier I really like the race and so did Sean, we hadn’t even got back to hotel and Sean said he would like to run it again!! so it looks like we will be back next year, I just wonder we will like it as much in the rain ??
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