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A rarity - A Race Report from me.

RACE REPORT - Vale of Pewsey 1/2 Mara

Conditions started off being hot then half hour before clouded over - perfect. The plan today was to get a PW! Strange you may say, but no, I wanted a motivator to get me back into long running again after my knee injury, so planned this race, and to run it at a pace that I would enjoy and be able to handle on the day..... meet up with a few forumites from RW threads which was good. Pace wise wanted to keep around 8:30 -8:45 with the hills.

so off we go on a nice undulating course:

1m - 8:43 (Inc a pee stop)
2m - 8:49 up and down
3m - 8:23 feeling OK and chatting a plenty
4m - 8:40 And a long Hill up, tag on with a group
5m - 8:17 On to the flat and still comfy
6m - 8:06 A bit fast, but moving with the group
7m - 8:06 Same as mile 6, but group start to speed up so let them go
8m - 8:02 Still going too fast, but chatting again (possible cause)
9m - 8:31 Back to the undulations
10m - 8:19 Catch 2 of the group that I let go
11m - 8:51 Dont know what happened here as lost no ground
12m - 8:08 Know sub 1:50 is on so start kicking and passing several who are finding it hard.
13m - 8:00 Still pushing despite a long drag up hill, get taken by two runners as I take 4 others
0.10 - 42 secs push for the line and get anotehr just before the line

Finish with a 1:49:45
So plan achieved a PW by 3 mins, dont care about that as the run was good, and the objective well and truely achieved - I can now use this and push on.

Thanks to all the marshalls - you were great today.

Take care