I was feeling a bit down on my ability after running my usual Park Run route on Friday trying to keep to my race 6.30 / minute pace but failing miserably and pulling up after just over 2 miles.
I think if you've gotten your body used to running early evening, then going out at lunchtime and trying to run fast without properly warming up is not likely to end well.
So now it's 2 weeks before my main event I needed to do 1 last long run. As I've been training to 10 miles I wanted to run the full distance once, just to get 13 miles on the legs.
I went with a friend so I had an opportunity to go steady, otherwise I'd just go off too fast. At about halfway we decided to split up and I pushed on up the locks into Tardebigge, trying to keep around 8 minutes / mile. Recurring side-stitch was almost nowhere to be seen, left knee always seems to flare up on this route, but managed to run through it and it went off.
Anyway, came in for 13.1 miles at 1:44:26, which is actually 8 minutes faster than my previous Half-Marathon PB. And this was with a slow 1st half, and climbing locks on the 2nd half.
Great confidence building run and I reckon it puts me on course for a sub 1:35 Half-Marathon at the event. Sub 1:30 might be a bridge too far this time.
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