Brighton Half Marathon

  • Rated 78%
  • 13.1mi
  • Road
Entrants (50) Club PB SB Pred Time WAVA
BobParr Unaffiliated 1:52:12
Debbiedot Unaffiliated 2:36:09
DaveChild Unaffiliated
jamesdown1986 Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers RC, Redway Runners, Sweatshop Running Community - Milton Keynes 1:21:15
Gilly* Tone Zone Runners, Victory AC 1:12:15 1:13:16 1:13:54 79.48
Lost City of Salisbury A & RC 1:12:04 1:14:59 1:14:59 77.32
Totriornottotri The Royal Navy AC, Watford Joggers, Royal Navy AC, Baffins Fit Club 1:15:32 1:15:32 1:18:26 1:15:32 76.77
Martin G Saint Edmund Pacers 1:17:27 1:18:18 1:18:18 74.06
emzley Unaffiliated 1:18:43 1:18:43 1:19:45 80.85
Damo666 Striders of Croydon AC 1:19:51 1:20:44 1:21:00 1:20:44 76.48
Vin Rouge Striders of Croydon AC 1:24:42 1:25:45 1:25:45 73.84
elliot_worth Unaffiliated 1:22:27 1:26:04 1:27:59 1:26:04 71.15
chinners Steyning AC 1:26:20 1:26:20 1:27:00 1:26:20 67.72
worthingrunner Unaffiliated 1:24:04 1:28:28 1:35:00 1:28:28 66.40
Amadeus Unaffiliated 1:26:46 1:29:02 1:29:02 69.93
TheDuke Unaffiliated 1:31:49 1:31:54 1:33:00 1:31:54 69.49
Geoff new Milton Keynes AC, Redway Runners 1:31:31 1:32:28 1:34:35 68.11
Perfect Organism The 2015 Brighton Half Marathon!

So the first big race of the 2015 season had arrived for me, and I was feeling good about it. I hadn't followed a plan per se but had taken the elements of a plan (steady runs, intervals, tempo, long runs) and just kind of made it up as I went along depending on how things fit into life. On top of that I was doing a good bit of cycling to and from work so was presumably building up my fitness that way also.

The week before the race I had taken it fairly easy, both on runs and cycles done, and also on booze drank - I barely touched a drop all week.

Me and Laura L woke up nice and early, and a hearty enough breakfast of porridge and banana, coffee, and toast was had. It was then off down to the seafront.

The weather was very cold, with a very slight breeze. But, it was dry and given the way the forecast was looking just a week ago, we gained a get out of jail card here.

The atmosphere was buzzing down at the pier, and apart from a little bit of a bottleneck when walking to the baggage area, and the starting pens not being very clearly marked, everything when very smoothly.

There was time for a decent warm up, and to take a place near-ish the front.

The gun and confetti went off and the race began. I felt that a pace I could keep would be somewhere around 7.20 and I made an effort to not go too fast in those first few miles. There was not as much course congestion as usual at this race and that certainly helped with the pacing. Everything was going great until around mile 10 when the pain really started to kick in. Turning the corner at Hove Lagoon slowed me down quite a bit, but I managed to grit my teeth and maintain my pace to the finish line and a big PB!

The Brooklyns and Bowmore were in full flow! Unaffiliated 1:32:38 1:32:38 1:37:00 1:34:10 61.91
sheppardmk Redway Runners 1:25:36 1:33:51 1:40:43 66.25
Chevy Unaffiliated 1:31:09 1:37:39 1:37:39 61.23
AndyE Eynsham RoadRunners 1:36:36 1:38:02 1:36:00 1:38:02 66.86
johnsy Goole Viking Striders 1:36:06 1:38:23 1:38:25 66.03
Runningmachine Wadhurst Runners 1:33:13 1:39:47 1:41:20 1:39:47 72.73
garrybiddle Ampthill & Flitwick Flyers RC, Redway Runners 1:29:14 1:41:16 1:35:00 1:41:16 64.17
Steve Hoskins Harpenden Arrows 1:43:34 1:43:34 1:45:15 56.81
Chris_T117 Brighton & Hove City AC 1:44:20 1:44:20 1:46:59 1:44:20 62.28
johnny-the-eagle Crowborough Runners 1:38:08 1:46:12 1:46:12 61.19
middletoe Unaffiliated 1:46:05 1:46:20 2:00:00 1:46:20 60.58
Ouchling Unaffiliated 1:40:49 1:46:36 1:46:36 60.89
Hitch Poole AC 1:44:29 1:46:41 2:02:10 53.19
Laura L Unaffiliated 1:46:28 1:46:54 1:49:41 58.85
lady alton Collingwood AC 1:43:47 1:48:09 1:48:09 71.70
Mazza aka Fitso Unaffiliated 1:38:35 1:49:45 1:53:00 63.83
PlodderK 435th race Wadhurst Runners 1:20:22 1:50:30 1:58:19 1:59:45 64.36
Amaryllis Saints & Sinners Fun Runners 1:50:20 1:52:00 1:52:00 70.11
Brian1964 Unaffiliated 1:49:34 1:56:44 1:55:00 1:56:44 55.67
Gromit Belper Harriers 1:51:55 1:57:24 1:59:30 1:57:24 57.10
tony-tone Unaffiliated 1:56:47 2:01:10 1:59:00 2:01:10 47.88
kink bunny VEGAN RUNNERS UK 1:52:16 2:01:29 1:55:00 2:01:29 53.99
hillcrawler Unaffiliated 1:50:00 2:04:32 2:04:32 56.65
timosborn7 Unaffiliated 1:50:10 2:09:14 2:09:14 45.45
Han_Sorbie Burgess Hill Runners 2:09:16 2:09:16 2:09:16 49.88
StorksRock Not so slow as I'd feared, or so fast as I'd hoped :-) BeaRCats running club 1:57:52 2:09:20 1:55:00 2:09:20 55.13
Mr Harves Dartford Road Runners 2:09:52 2:09:52 2:14:59 2:09:52 47.95
superflyguy Hailsham Harriers 1:52:54 2:11:29 2:15:00 2:11:29 45.48
Houblon BeaRCats running club 2:06:38 2:13:46 2:16:11 47.71
Roobarb Lonely Goat Running Club 2:15:09 2:31:42 2:31:42 51.76
Dorset Roger Unaffiliated 1:58:51 2:36:16 2:20:00 2:36:16 41.22
sallykate FERC 2:19:04 2:44:39 2:44:39 42.41
lesleyanne Unaffiliated 2:28:58 3:02:05 3:15:00 3:16:14 43.91

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