Ok - Gosport 1/2 Marathon
The culmination of 16 weeks training aiming for a sub 85 min time, all to plan with with arrival and warm up, and the conditions were perfect, clear skies with a crispness in the air, no gloves or extra clothing required.
The aim was to stick around 6:25mm and not get carried away... overall this was achieved and knew by 10m that all I had to do was stay calm and relaxed. I would do my normal type report, but wa sso foucused that really cannot remember too much other than running my own race and on the switch backs supporting club mates and others that I knew.
I went through 10k in under 40 mins, about 39:15 give or take, half way in 41:55 (again give or take) through 10m at 1:03:59 and then the finish in 119th place in 1:23:56, smashing my PB by 2 mins and 3 Secs from Solent 5 weeks ago (which was undulating - where as todays race was flater than a flat thing) so was only 5 secs or so slower than the first half.......
Really chuffed and even more so with my splits which averaged 6:25mm overall.
1m - 6:24
2m - 6:17
3m - 6:22
4m - 6:20
5m - 6:26
6m - 6:26
7m - 6:27
8m - 6:21
9m - 6:23
10m - 6:29
11m - 6:26
12m - 6:29
13m - 6:23
.1m - 0.37
Great goody bag too, plus most of our club runners also got PB's so well done all round, great running from Adem Omar, Peter Mitchell, Mark Curtis, Andy Fifield,Robert Cliffe, Kate Towerton, Steve B, Jade Rolfe, Fay Wyatt, Martin Welsh, Jon Greenhalgh, Bryony M Janice C, Aiden OM and Rich P and thanks to support from
Great Day and 1 main target for the year achieved........... a sub 85... did it in style with a sub 84....
6:24, 6:17, 6:22, 6:20, 6:26, 6:26, 6:27, 6:21, 6:23, 6:29, 6:26, 6:29, ,6:23, 0.37
Amazing