Half Marathon Orihuela - A big step forward

This race was on Valentine's Day morning in a place called Orihuela, its a small town that's about 10km from the coast. I wasn't expecting much from the race, I pb'd in Santa Pola, but that was mostly alongside the beach so completely flat and once you get a bit away from the coast here you are pretty much into the mountains....I was expecting hills. Fortunately for me, I was completely wrong. The course was almost completely flat, and it was a cold day for here which made it comfortable running, and all that contributed to another new PB!

It was a really enjoyable run, plenty of people out on the street cheering you on like in Santa Pola, but without the problem of having so many runners to get through. On official time (from the gun to crossing the finish line) it was over two minutes quicker than in Santa Pola, and still almost one and a half minutes on chipped time (crossing the start line to crossing the finish line).
1:27:48 Official Time 1:27:27 Chipped Time.

That's over four minutes off my PB over the past 3 races.

I ran fairly steadily at around 4:10min/km for the whole race, and still had enough left for a sprint finish at the end.

Another big step forward towards the marathon.

Cold day = opportunity to make good use of the Spurs wooly hat!