It was a gorgeous day for the Hastings Half Marathon, though I ran it without much panache. I started well, but slowed down on the long hill, and, though I managed to be quite fast on some of the downhills, remembering that gravity is my friend, it wasn't enough to catch up, or meet my target of bettering last year's time. However, this point of this training is to run the Neolithic Marathon in under four hours, so I shall see this in that context.
As before, the support from bystanders was quite astonishing.
Time: 1:52:08
Distance: 13.25 (so the Forerunner says)
Pace: 8.28 (best 5.35)
Total distance this week: 32.67
Eight weeks till the Neolithic Marathon: I am exactly half way through my training.
