After finishing my first half marathon in over five months I returned home with extremely mixed emotions. The first thing to say it was a lot more pleasant an experience than in my last half marathon when I suffered due to both a lack of training and oppresive heat. This time I was running in almost perfect conditions, under bright sunshine but at a comfortable temperature, plus I've been training well.
I finished in 1:32:09, in 125th place of 564 finishers. The bit that gives the mixed emotions is the time, it was just 3 seconds outside the PB I set in March. While on the one hand its great that I managed to be so near to my PB so far away from my main objective, the marathon, its tinged by the thought that if I'd pushed things just that little bit harder I would be celebrating the new PB. It shouldn't bug me, its only 3 seconds after 92 minutes of running, but it does. The frustation is added to when I consider the time I lost when, like in Altea, I had to stop to tie my shoe. I lost 30 seconds for such a stupid avoidable thing, that is never an issue in training.
Anyway, I guess I should put it to bed, its only 5 weeks until my next half, when I get another chance to set the PB I wanted.
Here are the 5km splits:
1st 5km 21:15
2nd 5km 21:15 42:30
3rd 5km 21:56 1:04:27 (this was about the time the winner finished in)
4th 5km 21:32 1:25:59
1.1km 6:09
The timings for the first two splits are pretty accurate, but from about 8km onwards they become a bit less reliable as the GPS on my watch doesn't work so well around tall buildings. The story of the race was that I set off pretty quick, the first 5k was my quickest despite the stop to tie my shoe being in that section, I was conscious that it was quick, and perhaps too quick so I tried to slow down a bit after km 8. I was feeling good at km 16 so I tried to push on in the last 5km and I thought I'd done that quite well, but came up a little short.
All in all I guess I should be happy with it, and I move on to the next few weeks of training with the boost of confidence from knowing I'm in, close, to PB form.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/18803967
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