First Event of the year

Spring is in the air and thus a raft of Half Marathons are taking place, my interest this weekend lay in the Fleet Half Marathon. This is a really well run event with 2,500 runners, mostly training for the London Marathon. I used this to measure my running strength bearing in mind that I have neglected my running in favour of swimming over the last three months. The good news is I beat my target by 7 seconds and I beat last year by two minutes so I was pretty happy with my fitness if not my absolute speed. I messed up my pacing completely which meant I made hard work of the race; I got carried away at the start went out too fast at a pace that was 8 minutes inside my goal time and a heart rate that was too high, after a couple of miles I managed to slow it down but then slowed too much and ended up a minute behind schedule with 3 miles to go. I had to run a 20’30” 5Km to hit my goal time which really took it out of me; I was exhausted at the finish and couldn’t have run another mile. For me the result means that I can still focus on my swim for the next few months and still put in a respectable run leg.

Training Done: Run: Interval Session; Weights; Bike 20Km Z1; Run: 13.1 Miles 89’52”