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Chickvic

Good luck Indie Kid! :T My first half is in October!

Lizling

Good luck to both of you! Which ones are you doing?

Half marathon is my favourite distance. Gives you enough time to settle into it properly but not long enough to get bored.

Indie_Kid

I'm doing Indian Queens on Sunday and Bournemouth in October

Lizling

I don't know Indian Queens, but I love Bournemouth! Slightly downhill overall, nice sea view for most of it, good atmosphere, good organisation, even had enough portaloos at the start line last year! :0

Only problem was we couldn't find anywhere doing a decent carbfest before or roast dinner afterwards, but I suppose that's not very mse anyway.

Indie_Kid

I did a 5k in Bournemouth as my first ever race and loved it. Apart from having to run / walk with both knees bandaged - managed to fall over a few days before...

Chickvic

My half is in Birmingham, the Bupa run. Can't wait managed to do 18k this morning.

Chickvic

Hmm - looks like I'm a thread killer :eek:

Went for it today, did my half marathon distance in 2h 17m 01s! Really pleased with that

Lizling

Well done Chickvic! How was the course? Is it a nice half marathon to do?

Chickvic

Lizling wrote: »

Well done Chickvic! How was the course? Is it a nice half marathon to do?

My official half isn't until October, this was just me proving I could do it I just went and ran it locally.

Lizling

In that case, even more well done. I think it's much harder to put that kind of effort in without the pressure of a race - not to mention the water stations and lack of traffic and slow-moving pedestrians.

Now that you know you can do the distance, will you be aiming for a time or just trying to find out what you can do on the day?


For me, I did the last local 10k race for the season this morning. Conditions were really good so I got a nice new PB. Then I went back to bed because they are very early races. Now to focus exclusively on half marathon training for a few weeks.